By popular demand: the New Hampshire Board of Medicine is asking the attorney general’s office to investigate a complaint by a woman that Dr. Terry Bennett told her she was obese. Because the complaint is confidential, and news coverage has only told Bennett’s version of the story, there may be more to this tale than the seemingly absurd situation of possible government sanction for providing truthfully blunt and important health information to a patient suffering from a potentially life-threatening condition. But if the reporting is accurate, it would seem to be another piece of evidence that contradicts the frequent excuse of tort-reform opponents that aggressive medical malpractice lawsuits are needed to compensate for under-vigilant medical boards. (AP/MSNBC, Aug. 24).
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