Posted on Nov 15, 2019
Soldiers should be able to sue military doctors for poor medical care, Rick Scott says
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What does everyone think about this? I personally have not had any shitty military doctors. However, as a leader, I have had to deal with a few. I've also read some real horror stories like the one from this article. The Feres Doctrine definitely needs to be relooked.
Soldiers should be able to sue military doctors for poor medical care, Rick Scott says
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Is his story sad? Yes. But, how many people have cases like this? 1, 10, 100? When we start making laws because we feel bad about a certain person who has been paraded around as an example, then we make sh#tty laws. Write good laws, fix them when they don't work as expected. I, nor anyone I served with, ever had bad diagnoses. So, I think this is sad, but not law worthy. The families can sue, and the SM's are always covered. In his case he waited until it was so bad before he went to the Dr in Jan 2017 for pneumonia. It never got better until he collapsed in May 2017. Maybe he shouldn't have tried to tough it out, and realized after 10 days or so, when there was no change, and should have gone back to the Dr.
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MCPO Roger Collins
Can’t think of a single incident during my 21 years that would warrant legal action against medical treatment by military Medical personnel. Shore or ship (subs in my case). And at times, our Doc was an E-5.
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SSG Robert Webster COL Mikel J. Burroughs 1SG John Faircloth SPC Joshua Blotzer 1SG John Furr Lt Col Charlie Brown SSG Carlos Madden SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth SSgt Jim Gilmore SGT John " Mac " McConnell Capt Seid Waddell CW5 (Join to see) 1stSgt Eugene Harless SFC William Farrell SSgt (Join to see) PO1 John Miller SPC David S. CPT (Join to see) SSgt Addison R.
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SSgt Jim Gilmore
Not sure what current policy is but use to be you could not sue military doctors as a service member. However, your dependents could sue if they were malpractice victims in a military hospital.
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