Comments on: Seattle report claims: “Admitting medical errors is not always the best policy”

By: dod meme

dod meme — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 04:59:03 +0000

Agreed! I don’t trust medical personnel especially doctors any more than a politician because it is now standard protocol to cover their own ass…and to hell with the patient.

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By: sukhwinder

sukhwinder — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:44:30 +0000

We all make our decisions and we all must live with their consequences. I accept responsibility for my decisions and wish that doctors could be so evolved.

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By: McTaggart

McTaggart — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 11:31:21 +0000

So if patients are not physically injured by medical error, may not necessarily benefit from its disclosure, or may be “psychologically harmed” by learning about the errors, doctors and hospitals really don’t have to let us know that they have screwed up? This is typical “hospitalese” mumbo jumbo at its finest.

All they have to do is insist that the public might be “psychologically harmed” if they learn that a bad procedure or test or incompetent doctor may have been involved in their care.

OF COURSE we are going to be “psychologically harmed” by learning about potentially dangerous mistakes in our own health care. So that gets doctors and hospitals off the hook, doesn’t it?

Good work on this – it’s frightening.

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By: Beth Stephens

Beth Stephens — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:36:06 +0000

“..staff incompetence, poor quality control, deficient procedures, frequent turnover of the staff of pathologists..” ??!!

What is this place, a third world country? Absolutely shocking story here. What possible punishment could be harsh enough for those running this lab given the devastation that they caused so many innocent lives. And where are the government regulators in all this?

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