I found this an interesting article given our past discussions regarding "abortion" and "Patient/Doctor" rights. And our discussions regarding tort reform and unqualified people making decisions. Should a law judge be making this call? What do you think is really happening here? Justice, politics, something else?
MSNBC Kansas Dr to Lose License?
seems to me the only "person" in question here is the computer program that actually rendered the diagnosis, unless someone can prove that this Dr. was too incompetent or unqualified to operate the computer. As I read it, there is nothing in the law that would require an actual human being to render that second opinion, and the fact that the good doctor did not concur with the abortionist in every case is there evidence of her independence. QED
ReplyDeleteOf course, what the law clearly says is not always an indicator of how the law will be applied, and "equal justice under the law" is pretty much an ideal state, unattainable in the reality.
J. Ewing
An FYI not related to this post.
ReplyDeleteTort reform fired up again...
All-important link unrelated to this post:
ReplyDeletehttp://americanexperiment.org/sites/default/files/article_pdf/Our%20Immense%20Achievement%20Gap%20WEB.pdf
J. Ewing