At 08:16 on 13/8/96, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Paul Caldwell wrote:
> >
> > Mr Ross sends an E-mail hoping to reassure GP's. Unfortunately he has
>scored a........
> > Dr paul Caldwell
>
>
> 'Some of the more ludicrous medico-legal actions'? The Government, nor
> most people, thought it ludicrous when they had to settle up to
> haemophiliacs infected with HIV, nor to non-hameophiliacs infected
> through transfusions. Similarly when they had to do likewise recently
> for children infected with CJD through Human Growth Hormone. Ditto a
> cosmetic manufacturer injuring a customers face and employers breaching
> COSHH and, as a result, increasing the asthma figures. Even with regard
> to all the other cases in which we are involved, whether succesful or
> not, they all have the support of highly respected and experienced
> medical and scientific experts, not just lawyers.We could not get these
> cases off the ground without medical opinion in support.
>
But the questions remain:
IS the route via the legal system the only way to solve the problems mentioned?
Aren't there better ways?
Gerard Freriks,huisarts, MD
C. Sterrenburgstr 54
3151JG Hoek van Holland
the Netherlands (31) 174-384296/ Fax: -386249
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