And with cases like that they're all over it immediately, vultures
sitting around the hospital, waiting to offer the services. But
you're Joe Sixpack, not a pretty cheerleader, the hospital has high-dollar
lawyers and they'll have to work for it and it's not so cut-and-dried.
A word about lawyers and their websites. Most are poorly constructed
using templates and provided little information beyond the type of
litigation available, sometimes a few successful suits (most of them
years old) and a contact page.
I mention this because the Medical Industry is similar in this
respect. Very large hospitals have relatively well-done sites but
even those are not well maintained of not much use beyond where the
hospital is located and (mostly useless) contact information. They
do sometimes have a page showing their doctors, and sometimes the
board of directors. These are the high dollar professional shoots,
I've been featured in a few. They bring in a portable studio
complete with makeup people, everything picture perfect.
Lower in the food chain it's worse. Many local clinics do not even
have a website, and there only web presence is a link to another site
- sometimes an association of some sort or a hospital with which they
are affiliated - and those are often not functional. My personal
physician - yes, I still have one - is part of a small clinic used by
my family for generations. It has no website, only a link to the
hospital of which it is effectively a part.
But like lawyers they have no reason to care. The customers require
their services, such as they are, and will find them. And while
there are many lawyers, there are fewer doctors and outside large
cities few hospitals. And customer satisfaction is nothing to be
concerned about as there is no accountability.
But like lawyers they have no reason to care. The customers require
their services, such as they are, and will find them. And while
there are many lawyers, there are fewer doctors and outside large
cities few hospitals. And customer satisfaction is nothing to be
concerned about as there is no accountability.
Hospital C, by the way, has a website rather amateurishly executed
using one of the less capable website builder sites. Like most it
provides little information but does have a page with the high
quality photographs of their staff. Including the doctor who nearly
killed me. Since I have never actually seen him, that was nice of
them.
But back to lawyers. I would spend the next year contacting perhaps
two hundred lawyers. From most I got no response at all (who knows
if they ever received my message) and the few who asked for more
details were 'regrettably' unable to help. Several law firms located in
the same city as Hospital C did have the honesty to simply reply that
they would not sue a local hospital.
I find it regrettable as well, but these days there is little about
most people I don't find regrettable.