Re: Medical malpractice is responsible for up to 98,000 deaths per year in the U.S.
From: Greatcod (Greatcod_at_Yahoo.com)
Date: 08/22/04
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Date: 22 Aug 2004 07:34:15 -0700
My sense is that the deaths are merely the tip of the iceberg. How
many patients are disabled or incapacitated by failure to diagnose,
wrong diagnosis, failure to treat and inappropriate treatment? There
is no count, as far as I know. Lyme aside, in the last 10 years I have
paid increasing attention to the horror stories, stories I would have
dismissed as distorted
or untrue earlier in my life. Big Medicine does a great deal of good,
without question. But there is also a dark and destructive side to it.
And the "Peers" seem utterely consciousless, almost psychotic about
it. The "Professional
Silence" is like the Mafia omerta. I guess in both cases, you have to
have "made your bones" to understand.
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