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naraburns  nihil supernum  4mo ago (text post)   Edited 4mo ago   5002 thread views

Quality Contributions Report for August 2025

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Quality Contributions to the Main Motte

@faceh:

@RenOS:

@FiveHourMarathon:

Contributions for the week of July 28, 2025

@kky:

Contributions for the week of August 4, 2025

@FtttG:

@SirJohnFalstaff:

@Rov_Scam:

@OliveTapenade:

@Primaprimaprima:

@EverythingIsFine:

Gun Mods

@cjet79:

@self_made_human:

Contributions for the week of August 11, 2025

@naraburns:

@07mk on:

Dates and Mates

@quiet_NaN:

@faceh:

@self_made_human:

@urquan:

Contributions for the week of August 18, 2025

@100ProofTollBooth:

@thejdizzler:

@07mk:

@RandomRanger:

@FCfromSSC:

@Amadan:

@Dean:

Contributions for the week of August 25, 2025

@MadMonzer:

@Hoffmeister25:

Vengeance is Mine, Saith the Lord

@FCfromSSC:

@FtttG:

You Can't Put a Price on Your Health (That's Someone Else's Job)

@ControlsFreak:

@MonkeyWithAMachinegun:

@self_made_human:

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Yes exactly, I don't know of any cases where a patient has sued over a bad estimate, but I do know plenty of cases where a patient had an estimate that was labeled as such and then refused to pay the bill when the estimate was...an estimate. Puts the hospital in an awkward spot and I do know of many cases where the hospital chose to take the PR hit and sued patients to attempt to force them to pay their bill (it is possible some of those generated counter lawsuits?).

Additionally the hospital does all kinds of crazy nonsense to prevent theoretical lawsuits, often the staff is the victim. I do a fuckton of modules every year that likely do nothing to reduce hospital liability but they are just crossing their fingers and making staff do this shit. Also the classic cases of a heroin addict being told "don't leave, if you do you have a high chance of dying" "no thanks I'm going to get high" and then some poor resident being forced to chase them down to convince them to sign an AMA form which has no value at all.

Lastly you have malpractice lawsuits, which illustrate that you can generate multiple hundreds of millions in verdict with no particular malpractice performed, or somehow be held liable even though you were completely uninvolved. Meddit is littered with these cases.*

After that abuse it's not shocking that people in medicine are skittish as hell.

*To be clear wrong does occur on occasion but supposedly the research shows that actual wrong doing is statistically unrelated to judgements/verdicts.

Ok, so it is a totally fake "liability concern", and to your knowledge, no patient has ever sued a provider over a bad estimate. Care to weigh in on whether you think this commonly happens in other industries where providing estimates is routine?

You're sort of running out of excuses to not provide prices if you're all the way down the list to fake "liability concerns".

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