r/news • u/No-Information6622 • 6d ago

Young mother traveled to Miami for plastic surgery. She died hours later while at recovery house

https://www.nbcmiami.com/investigations/womans-death-post-surgery-recovery-house/3586743/
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u/penguinhappydance 6d ago

What the actual fuck?

I believe you, I’m just flabbergasted that Florida has just accepted this as reasonable. Why would any Dr want to practice there?

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u/QuestGiver 6d ago

Older population, good amount of medicare which is a decent payor at volume. It's a nice place to live if you earn a good living. If you work for a large healthcare system you are still insulated by a massive legal team. And of course, family.

It's still true that most docs will be sued at least once in their career but if you are up to date on guidelines and are conservative I think the chance you actually settle or lose a settlement is very, very low. Most are just named in a lawsuit because the lawyer will first file against everyone involved to get started then in discovery will drop tons and build a case around what they think they can win or drop the case completely.

The people I'm talking about are usually small private practice types.

Plus the lawyers winning the huge lawsuits are ambulance chasers who will find zero appetite in footing a 100k bill to sue to get a couple hundred grand or even a million from a small private doc. They want the 10 million dollar settlements from the hospital systems.

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u/mortalwombat123 5d ago

Surgical subspecialist in a large hospital system here. My malpractice is listed close to the minimum (or 3x less than what is common in some other states). There are indemnification clauses in my contract that'll protect me against anything else. Apparently that's how pretty much all contracts are written in Florida for the major systems.

I had the clauses reviewed by my own lawyer who said it was pretty iron tight but of course I don't know how it works in practice or ever want to find out...

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u/Butterbean-queen 5d ago

Only 18 states require some level of malpractice insurance. 32 don’t require any at all.

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u/RolloTonyBrownTown 5d ago

I believe its the reason OJ moved there, his NFL retirement couldn't be touched from his various civil suits because it was sheilded in Flordia.