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Originally Posted by willgardner
Absolutely, I have been supremely disappointed and appalled by most of the doctors I saw, especially the specialists who work for the insurance company. There is something wrong with the system we have in place, or perhaps it is the money-driven, superficial culture that values what we do for a living rather than how we do it. When did the integrity, nobility and care for patients disappear from the physician job-description? I AM FURIOUS.
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The "system" was designed deliberately to benefit the insurance companies. If it wasn't, a few simple fixes could be implemented to make the situation fairer.
For starters, in a socialized system, like Canada's, insurance companies should not be permitted to pay for "Independent" Medical Assessments. Patients should be examined/treated within the public system, eliminating the financial inducement for doctors to find against the patient.
Secondly, doctors should not be exempt from liability for any losses incurred by the patient as a consequence of their medical reports. As it stands now, Canadian doctors can write the most outrageous lies in an insurance company report, and the patient has no regress against them. If that isn't an incentive for abuse, I don't know what is.
Still, I have zero confidence that things will ever get better for victims. In fact, with the implementation of "caps," things are getting much, much worse. When my province "reformed" car insurance, they let the industry rewrite the laws. No kidding.
