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10-31-2013, 11:40 PM
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 ★ PSYCHOPOMP ★ Poster Rank:104 Man Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 15,927 Mentioned: 9 Post(s) Quoted: 1294 Post(s)
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Re: Should Colleagues Report Medical Mistakes?
My boss just yesterday called and informed a family about a mishap at my work. Nothing sinister or ultra bad, but if she didn't tell them.... then they would have never known. Makes for integrity... but can be hard at times  |
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10-31-2013, 11:55 PM
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 ★The Queen★ Poster Rank:67 Female Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 23,498
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Re: Should Colleagues Report Medical Mistakes?
If you saw any of the tv shows I mentioned, many could have had better results had someone noticed or reported a mistake  One guy had a metal spatula looking thing about 10 inches long inside him and kept complaining of pain. By the time he was diagnosed correctly, he had necrotizing fasciitis and still does. Very sad and debilitating unnecessarily  |
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11-01-2013, 03:48 AM
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 My Rank: FIRST SERGEANT Poster Rank:406 Male Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 2,957 Mentioned: 18 Post(s) Quoted: 447 Post(s)
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Wouldn't be surprised if I have a whole mechanic's tool set in me...  So many procedures and surgeries..All needed and not just because I wanted them..but still. Worst I had that they ever screwed up on...my knee last year.. (Anniversary November 30th.  )they drained it in the E.R. , then performed a knee arthroscopy, flushed and drained it.. Sent me back to my room. Doctor had I.V. Morphine and Percocet on my list of meds for pain.. Nurses never took them off the list.. Whole week I was in the hospital..every 2 hours.. Only reason I know someone screwed up, doc asked my nurse what I was getting for pain as I was discharged.. She told him, "Morphine and Percocet as ordered." He replied "WHAT?"...then said "uh..well..sending you home with Naproxen and allopurinol.." He did prescribe the opiate painkillers..but was only to be for 2-3 days... |
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11-01-2013, 11:33 PM
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Re: Should Colleagues Report Medical Mistakes?
It's a shame some industries aren't held to the same standards as others. I can't understand why it wouldn't be as high as possible?
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11-02-2013, 12:34 AM
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 ★ Legacy Member ★ Poster Rank:192 All woman Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 7,782 Mentioned: 22 Post(s) Quoted: 1420 Post(s)
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Re: Should Colleagues Report Medical Mistakes?
There were two episodes of the show The Monsters Inside Me in which surgical equipment was left inside a patient. One guy had a 12-inch retractor left in his stomach, and they left part of the gauze packing in the nose of a woman who had surgery to correct a deviated septum. The guy's fine, but the poor woman now has permanent sinus problems. There was another show I caught where a retractor was left in a man's abdomen, and he developed necrotizing fasciitis. After all the surgeries to remove the dead tissue he was left with a hole about the size of a baseball in his stomach. There are some hospitals that are now actually taking x-rays of surgical patients after their operations to make sure that nothing has been left inside of them. Even though equipment being left behind is a bit on the rare side, it wouldn't be a bad idea for all hospitals to adopt the same kind of policy. |
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12-16-2013, 10:42 PM
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| My Rank: STAFF SERGEANT Poster Rank:796 male Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 981 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 220 Post(s)
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you don't think doctors are held to a high standard? you, sir, are an idiot. They are held to the highest of highest. Why do you think people flip out and call their lawyers when even small, honest mistakes are made? People need to realize that doctors are not perfect and just like you and me they can and do make mistakes. Yeah, yeah..."but doctors have peoples lives in their hands blah blah blah" does that change the fact that they are human and prone to mistakes like anyone else is? lemme answer that for you: no. there are errors that should never be made and are inexcusable, no profession is immune from that (but not every medical error results in death or disfigurement as some would have you believe) There are also honest mistakes that happen and you are going to find those in every profession--even medicine. Go look up some of the crap that people try to sue doctors for and you will find out why they are reluctant to report even small, completely unintended mistakes. I'm all for integrity and think that doctors should report their own and any other errors they come upon, but everyone else needs to realize doctors arent demigods just because they went to medical school. |
