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The Reason the law is in place is because during Combat, when Doctors are overwhelmed with casualities they have to make split second decisions on who to save and who to let die. If we allowed everyone to sue for every mistake they made, it would tie up all the Military doctors who ever had to preform triage in courts for years and years. We would lose more troops because the doctors would all be in court back in the US for every little decision they made.
This is one of those cases where that law protects those doctors in a case it wasn't intended to, but if we repeal the law, it will bog down our courts and our Militart Medical system and make things WAY worse. I think rather than repeal the law, they should make a review board to weigh the merit of each case, and go from there so the system doesn't get bogged down with bogus cases.
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