Going for the Deep Pockets

Let me sue somebody--anybody--for you!

Going for the Deep Pockets

 

By Elton Camp

 

Too many lawyers seeking somebody to sue

From doctors & hospitals feel a living is due

 

So doctors and nurses are forced into CYA

For needless tests the patients then must pay

 

A doctor would surely be a most careless sort

Who didn’t ask, “How will this look in court?”

 

The lawyer who an ambulance used to chase

Is the same one who loves the doctors to face

 

Malpractice insurance has pockets so deep

But it makes the doctor’s fees terribly steep

 

So all he can do is charge patients more

So such lawyers we all should simply abhor

 

In rare cases, a doctor is guilty as can be

A malpractice suit there I can actually see

 

But medical practice is surely an inexact art

And most such actions should never start

 

For what some lawyers do absolutely isn’t right

Such a one is nothing but an economic parasite