Medical malpractice reform now!
Time for “common sense” doctor control
Probably underestimates the real number by a factor of 10, given the nature of institutions to cover up events that expose them to liability.
All the healthiest people I know never see a doctor. Ever.
It’s because we don’t have a “health” care system. We have a “sick” care system. If you’re not profitably sick these institutions have no use for you, and all the incentives are to never find a cure for anything, just perpetually more expensive treatments to keep the gravy train rolling.
Not surprised, we are overloading the system with all of the illegal immigrants being let in along with legal immigrants.
Has happened in my family. Nurse gave my grandfather the wrong medication and it stopped his breathing. Luckily they were able to get him back.
Just recently my mom had surgery to repair a hiatal hernia. She had some nausea probably from the anaethesia, was vomiting when I got to her room. I contacted the nurse, they gave her meds that made her comfortable for the couple of hours that I was there with her but later that night she was vomitting more and the nurses let her vomit all night until I found out about it the next morning. Horrible care. I feel bad for people who have to be in the hospital and don’t have family to look out for them.
a lot of the folks dying from mistaken medical decisions wouldn’t have lived to get to the point where the bad decision was made just 10 or 15 years ago.
any bad decision that causes loss of life is horrible, but this article is just trying to be provocative without a discussion of underlying facts.
It’s probably from all of those unnecessary surgeries they perform to line their pockets. It’s a good thing Hussein told us about this and took over. {gut wrenching sarcasm}
I don’t visit a doctor unless I’m reasonably sure I’m dying. Haven’t done so in 10 years
99% of the time a disease you can easily pick up in the office/hospital is WAY worse than what is troubling you
If there are 250,000 deaths a year caused by doctors, and there are about 785,000 practicing physicians in the US, this means that, on average, 1 out of every 3 doctors causes the death of one patient per year.
Or put another way, each US doctor causes the death of 1 patient every 3 years.
Is this a reasonable estimate? I don’t know. Its possible.
I’ve got an idea - let’s force medical schools to ACCEPT MORE unqualified students in the ever insane quest to force artificial ‘fairness’...
Or better - to help the self esteem of failing high school students we could put them directly into medical schools and demand at least half of them become doctors...Fast and ‘fair’... It’ll be faster because they can go straight from high school to medical school without wasting four years in college ...
I’ve been dealing with the best of the best in oncology since my diagnosis last summer. I’ve fired two of the best docs in the country. One wanted a full hysterectomy without further testing or reviewing my questionable path report. Jan Seski also allegedly illegally killed a lion in either Zimbabwe or Tanzania, I can’t remember which. Anyway, another superdoc wanted to open me up from abdomen to mid thigh and remove all the lymph nodes that he could reach. As it turns out, I have an extremely rare occurrence and this douche just wanted his name on my case. The first guy just wanted to use his fancy robot for another surgery. Not to mention, all the Cancer centers I’ve been in, and there are plenty, offer chemo patients “granola” bars, or glorified candy bars, and Ensure. Hello! Sugar?
My wonderful cousin. Just 9 months ago. He trusted doctors and didn’t question them. He was in good health, blood pressure a little high. He didn’t need meds. Could have drink coconut water and exercised more is all. But he trusted them. They had him on baby aspirin for years, good for his heart (which had no problems). They had just given him a diuretic and a new blood pressure Med. He said the diuretic got him up several times a night to pee. And the new BP Med made him dizzy.
So one night his wife hears him get up around 1. Bam, his head hits the floor. He fell straight back. Unconscious for 15 mins, the paramedics revive him but insist on bringing him in. Then they insist on a brain scan. It shows a massive brain bleed. Because of the baby aspirin he’d been taking for years, they can’t stop the bleeding.
The three drugs caused his death.
Please be careful and question everything. Doctors have to cover their butts to avoid being sued, but that works against you.
Way ahead of firearms.