TY for your e-mail response.  In your first e-mail to me, your statement " . . . in California, they are attempting to use criminal codes to prosecute medical providers for things that go wrong during a treatment" . . .  please enlighten me as to what you are referring to.

Civil lawsuits do not always bring justice for those who are victims of medical malpractice.  In the case of my husband, he and I filed a Medical Malpractice against the physician.  The civil trial began one year after my husband died.

The physician committed perjury on the witness stand, and his expert witness also committed perjury on the witness stand.  The physician fraudulently wrote in my husband's medical records during his hospitalization.  But, hey, I've found out that that is not uncommon.  Wrong, yes.  Not legal, yes. They get away with it, though.  And, of course, the Medical Board of California decided that what happened to my husband was not important enough.  Then, one of our local State Representatives requested that the Medical Board reopen the case regarding the Complaint I filed against the physician.  They did.  And, I received another letter shortly, saying, " sorry " . . . they would not investigate.  Too many cases to investigate already, and too few employees working in their office.

By the way, both the physician (who indirectly caused my husband's death) and the physician's expert witness, are on the hospital's Ethics Committee.  The physician is head of that Ethics Committee.

~ Lili Marlene Ludwick
 
 
 

BARRY1817@... wrote:

What you have told me is a tragedy.

The fact that a doctor has several problems with horrendous results and still
has a license goes to the issue that the peer review must make decisions
quickly and protect the public and that results of such decisions made public
so that one can adequately check out and deal with such problems.

If state agencies are going to license and certify a person safe to deal with
the public, then the state should also take responsibility when they mess up.

When one makes an error in judgment, or in a diagnosis, that is what civil
law suits are for and why there is malpractice insurance.

The question is do you think the doctor was incompetent, or was he trying to
harm your husband.  Incompetent would go to civil, and board action for
removal of his license.  If you think he was out to deliberately do harm,
then that would go to criminal in my opinion.

I am sorry that not only did you lose a loved one, but there seemed to be no
place that allowed you to pursue a claim.

I do hope that with some web sites that are developed there will be
information passed along that can help others and prevent what you went
through.

Sincerely,

Barry