[conanbatt]

> he patient can only sue if the patient has been harmed. They aren't performing the extra tests in case just wakes up and decides to sue them. They perform the extra tests so that they don't miss something that could harm the patient so badly that they sue.

Unfortunately this is not how good medicine is practiced. Medicine is not a straightforward hard-science. Tests are expensive, patients dont follow through, they have personal consequences, chances you got something are 100% but chances you got something specific are 0.0001%.

It is digestible for a doctor to have liability but compare it to other professions: does a web developer that botched a UI for a bank transfer and introduces some consequence go to jail for robbery? Doctors have too high a burden. And a decision or an oversight that makes someone die could be as stupid as a misprint on a paper.