Please sign!!!

[idocsteve]

Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath upon becoming doctors.

one of the line of it is to "do no harm" to anyone.

It oughta be called the "Hypocritical Oath".

"Do as little harm as possible while making the most money with the least amount of effort, and covering one's A$$"

 

[ncchuck]

I could be wrong on this but I don't believe there is a required statute for MDs to render aid in such a situation. Even if there WAS I highly doubt it would be grounds for permanently suspending a medical license. Medical licenses are suspended due to incompetance, billing fraud, and sexual harassment of patients (among other things), but not because they failed to render aid to a person who was not under their care.

Conversely, there have been numerous lawsuits whereby a person HAS rendered aid and they get sued by the person they tried to help.

I can only imagine how the friends and family of this diver must feel. But a petition isn't the way to do it. Perhaps several letters to his state's medical board would be the way to go.

I was orginally going to rant about how doctors have an ethical responsibility to help people in need. I was also going to say that good samaritan laws protect people attempting to give aid. I decided to do some basic research however. This is extremly complex and several principles are involved.
Good Samaritan Law
Duty to Rescue Law
Leaving the scene of an accident
Medical ethics
Medical liabiltity
Laws involving treating a person by the person that caused the accident.

I highly doubt anyone reading this forum and topic have the time or even the ability to determine what laws apply in this situation. No one can imagine what must have been going through the minds of either party.

I personally don't want to judge this case especially without knowing ALL the facts and laws. As a caring person, I want the person that caused this horrible ACCIDENT to be held responsible. Surely the person wasn't paying attention to the dive flags but I'm just as sure he didn't mean to injure anyone. I however am not capable and neither are the irate divers of judging this situation without hearing all the facts. As a person, I certainly feel the doctor should have tried to help the injured diver. I hope I would have done that if I were in that situation. Thankfully it wasn't me and I'm not going to judge the situation.

I will pray for the diver and the doctor. The only petition I would sign is to fund some additional education for boaters regarding dive flags.

 

[idocsteve]

The only petition I would sign is to fund some additional education for boaters regarding dive flags.

That sort of petition makes more sense and has a better chance of "making a difference" then one which is essentially "calling for the guy's head".

 

[DivingPrincessE]

Is this the case where he called his Lawyer before he called 911?

 

[idocsteve]

Is this the case where he called his Lawyer before he called 911?

No, this is a case where he called is lawyer.

 

[DivingPrincessE]

No, this is a case where he called is lawyer.

So he never called for help whatsoever. Yeah real charmer this guy

 

[idocsteve]

So he never called for help whatsoever. Yeah real charmer this guy

At least he has no doubt about his own arrogance. He crippled a guy due to his own ignorance, he doesn't give a damn and he's proud of it.

 

[ScubaSteve]

And make sure he is out in the ocean with nobody to help him. That is an important part.

I agree. cut his friggin legs off. just make sure he's awake and has no pain killers.... and do it slowly

 

[diver 85]

The guy who ran over the diver is an ER physician, and he's been charged with a misdemeanor in connection with the accident as well as for leaving the scene of an accident.

That much I get.

However a petition to try to strip the guy of his medical license because he didn't render aid to the guy he ran over?

There's no legitimate basis for that. If the guy who ran him over was an attorney, should we sign a petition to prevent him from practicing law? If he was a teacher, should we go after his teaching license?

While what the guy did was cowardly and thoughtless; there's no rational justification for trying to go after his medical license and even if you could come up with one, it would in no way be enforceable.

What about the Hippocratic Oath, I'm assuming, he took?.......Nah, the guy made a very bad split second decision, one I would not like calling the shots on me in an ER situation.....boot him, IMO....

 

[deepstops]

Alright, an internet lynch mob that doesn't know the full findings of fact from a yet to be published FWC investigation; yea, let's go ahead and blindly sign a petition!!!!

Amazing!

That's an incorrect statement, the FWC has finished and published their investigation. It's available for $35 by contacting Molly Williams in the North Palm Beach county FWC office. That being said, I haven't plunked down the $35 myself to read ir but it is also a fact he's been charged with a misdemeanor in relation to the accident.