Woman Receives Mistaken Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Linda McDougal was told she had breast cancer. Linda McDougal was told that her best chance at survival was to have a double masectomey, followed by radiation and chemotherapy treatments. Linda McDougal had the surgery. Oops!
I woke up to this report this morning on GMA. I heard it again on Fox News just a few minutes ago. What Ms McDougal went through was horrific and my heart goes out to her. I believe she should be awarded a huge settlement of at least a couple of million dollars just for this being done to her and in saying that I’m bringing up the rest of the story.
President Bush has proposed limiting judgements in cases like this to $250,000 for pain and suffering. This point was brought up on both GMA and Fox News. I’m going to do a little fence straddling on this issue. I agree that there needs to be a way to keep emotions out of these types of settlements and to find an objective method to limit pain and suffering awards to reasonable amounts. I reject the idea that there should be a set dollar amount figure for these types of judgements. I don’t see a way to do it and keep the system just. I especially disagree with the $250,000 amount. That is a way low figure. $250,000,000 is also way too large for anyone for any reason for a pain and suffering judgement.
With that said and out of the way let me finally get to my point. I’m troubled with the way that news programs are being used so blatantly for lobbying efforts these days.
General | Larry Burton | 20 January 2003 |
