Ritter Jury To Continue Deliberations Friday

[Healthcarre Reform]

Angie wrote:

Anybody ever see Mystery Diagnosis? Doctors nowaday SUCK! They dismiss patients with real problems and tell them it's all in their head - they make constant mistakes - I knew John & Amy and the Doctors need a real WAKE UP CALL!!!
I don't care how much money they have - Doctors need to get their sh*t together!

Are you for real?? First of all, should we believe that the judgement should go in favor of the family because you knew them and they are good people who "might" do something charitable with the money?
This wasn't about how good an actor he was, or how great a person he was, but whether it would have made any difference in outcome if the diagnosis had been made sooner. In real-life, which isn't like ER or Mystery Diagnosis where things are presented the way the producers and director want them to be presented, chest pain is very common and the diagnosis and treatment has to be arrived at quickly...and the logistics of getting someone into an OR for surgery is not as simple as calling the right department. You actually have to set it up for the specific procedure, get the correct staff...who probably are not hanging around the hospital waiting for the John Ritters of
the world to show up and then get anesthesia to intubate and put the patient to sleep (hoping that he didn't eat a lot beforehand). All of that, even in the most efficient system takes time, that apparantly Mr. Ritter didn't have.
It is a tragedy. But no more than the poor families in this country that can't even get the basics because of our system where the money goes to the insurance companies, the lawyers and the drug companies instead of the people actually trying to take care of patients. Doctors (and other healthcare providers) are trying to provide more care than was available in the past with less reimbursement AND trying to pay their staff more as well. Most medical lawsuits are frivolous (in that medicine is not a perfect science because both patients and doctors are not perfect).

[if in doubt blame MDs]

To Angie - You my dear are an idiot. Probably a typical Burbank wacko cigarette smoking vegan on Prozac and Vicodin, who has been to rehab 8 times but is still in "THEE INDUSTRY". Personal injury attorneys take cases on contingency fee (usually 33.3% of the judgement). If you are poor and have a case with even the slightest merit, you will have no problem finding an attorney. As with many professions, there are doctors who are greedy, incompetent and have no place in medicine. However, real life medicine is not like the fantasy shows you see on the boob tube, even the "real life" medical shows. Medicine is a noble calling, a life long contribution to society and humanity - unlike million dollar per weekly episode television acting. I am sure that if John Ritter could give us and his greedy wife a message, it would be to honor his memory as a talented and kind individual and not to try to ruin doctors' lives over a sadly terminal, genetic and catastrophic disease. Oh yeah Allen, Lucille Ball also died of an aortic dissection and Michael Landon of incurable cancer, but their families didn't sue. Bottom line - enjoy your short time on this earth as Mr. Ritter seemed to, be happy that you have a computer and TV unlike the vast majority of this world and try to give something back to humanity as Mr. Ritter did and as the many doctors of this world attempt to do in their own mortal and sometimes fallible way.

[blue collar person]

I am glad she lost. I am sure John would be telling her to let it go and would be blaming himself for not going to the Dr. for check ups.
If she has gone through that 14 million already, I suggest she get a job.

[JRC]

The time factor: DIAGNOSIS

Order the right TESTS misdiagnosis is happening to often like everything else, so please..........

Know what blooded thinner wear give and how much, if you are treating them for a heart attack, remember the blood needs to have some cloting before surgery.

And if something happen in surgery like stroke or leak of oxygen and you stop the surgery remember the Aortic Tear will disease and cost death.

Remember the family do not always get the truth, because it hard to share the fact of what the doctor's misdiagnosis. Not only before surgery, doing and also after surgery.

I say this, to say someone is responible.

Sharing Pain!!!!!!!!!jrc

[Snoop Doggy Dick]

This is a great decision in the case at hand.
That money hungry H0e was not caring about what sse said she was she wanted to get money without moving a finger, I guess the 14 million dollars she recieved from previous settlement is running out...Why don't she just start a charity in the name of John Ritter or something whats the point of suing for more money it doesnt change the outcome of the hospitals mistakes!
That stupid H0e was single handledly trying to close down the hospital for her own financial gain! Too Bad,Biatch!

[Anji]

if in doubt blame MDs wrote:

To Angie - You my dear are an idiot. Probably a typical Burbank wacko cigarette smoking vegan on Prozac and Vicodin, who has been to rehab 8 times but is still in "THEE INDUSTRY". Personal injury attorneys take cases on contingency fee (usually 33.3% of the judgement). If you are poor and have a case with even the slightest merit, you will have no problem finding an attorney. As with many professions, there are doctors who are greedy, incompetent and have no place in medicine. However, real life medicine is not like the fantasy shows you see on the boob tube, even the "real life" medical shows. Medicine is a noble calling, a life long contribution to society and humanity - unlike million dollar per weekly episode television acting. I am sure that if John Ritter could give us and his greedy wife a message, it would be to honor his memory as a talented and kind individual and not to try to ruin doctors' lives over a sadly terminal, genetic and catastrophic disease. Oh yeah Allen, Lucille Ball also died of an aortic dissection and Michael Landon of incurable cancer, but their families didn't sue. Bottom line - enjoy your short time on this earth as Mr. Ritter seemed to, be happy that you have a computer and TV unlike the vast majority of this world and try to give something back to humanity as Mr. Ritter did and as the many doctors of this world attempt to do in their own mortal and sometimes fallible way.

Don't smoke, not vegan, never been in rehab - but I have had serious health issues since I was a child. Consequently, I have heart disease, lesions in my brain, and Myelodyplastic Sydrome.

I have had to hold the hands of my Doctors & their assistants to order the right test & authorizations - follow up to make sure they send the right info to the insurance company so I can avoid the delays that their repeated mistakes have cost me. Had I not been dismissed 10 years ago when my symptoms started I may not be in the position I am - to possibly leave my young child motherless.

Go to a different Doctor - that's funny and I have. The doc I have now is about the best I've had yet I still have to follow up on everything. She works out of a low rent clinic that I went to when I had no insurance - now that I do have insurance I've gone to the more high rent Doctors and they are NO better.

[Anji]

Also not on Prozac or Vicoden.

Amy is not a HO - she has a beautiful little girl who wonders why God won't give him back.

I think they have probably given more to charity then you haters (you know who you are) have earned in your whole life - except maybe the doctors - but then I'm sure they don't give as much to charity as Amy does. Do you really think John Ritter would have been in love with a HO?

[Anji]

blue collar person wrote:

I am glad she lost. I am sure John would be telling her to let it go and would be blaming himself for not going to the Dr. for check ups.
If she has gone through that 14 million already, I suggest she get a job.

And yes you are right - even if you are poor and have a good case you could get a lawyer (another great ethical profession)- but if you are sick & poor without family I imagine it would be hard - I don't know never tried to sue any of the doctors that messed up on me. One time I was having a miscarriage - like 20 years ago. I did not have insurance at the time and was discharged after passing an undeterminable piece of tissue - the ER docs al looked confused and then sent me home.

I woke up in the middle of the night bleeding and in excrutiating pain and had the "rest" of my miscarriage. I was told by friends that I should go back & have a D&C - right - the hospital was the last place I wanted to go back to.

[Rad]

Angie wrote:

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Exactly!! We normal folks don't have the money to sue these incompetent Doctors - How can you judge Amy - How do you know they won't donate a good chunk of that money to research? You don't know - you don't know them but yet you judge - igorence is bliss. It is the people with the money to hire these lawyers to bring these Doctors to justice - yes they are not Gods - but too many of them are doing a half a s s e d job and need to do better.
Health care in this country is a JOKE!!!

It's funny how you are criticizing those who are criticizing the Ritters. You say, "you don't know them but yet you judge." Well, you don't know the situation that those doctors were in but yet you judge them...hmmmm. If ignorance is bliss you must be the most blissful person in the world.

[Rad]

Anji wrote:

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And yes you are right - even if you are poor and have a good case you could get a lawyer (another great ethical profession)- but if you are sick & poor without family I imagine it would be hard - I don't know never tried to sue any of the doctors that messed up on me. One time I was having a miscarriage - like 20 years ago. I did not have insurance at the time and was discharged after passing an undeterminable piece of tissue - the ER docs al looked confused and then sent me home.
I woke up in the middle of the night bleeding and in excrutiating pain and had the "rest" of my miscarriage. I was told by friends that I should go back & have a D&C - right - the hospital was the last place I wanted to go back to.

Once a miscarriage has started there is nothing to do to stop it. It's the body's way of removing a failed pregnancy. What do you think should-ve been done? Could they have done a D&C at that time?...Probably but there are risks involved. You could have ended up in worse shape than if they had let the process occur naturally.