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Home Page
Patient Safety
Silence vs
    Safety
Silenced
White wall
    of Silence
Silencing
Conflict Of
    Interest
Psychology of
    Providers
Subjectivity
Blacklisting  
Nurse survey
Loyalty
Mobbing and
    bullying
Trust Us
Defensive
    documenting
Report Rate
Risk
    managemnt
SOAP
Management
Hospitals
Crime in
    medicine
Sexual Abuse
Liability
    Limitations
Free Speech
    for Patients
Exploitation

OSMB Medical
    Boards
Mammography
solutions
Medical errors
Medical Complaints
One number
Links

Injured patients who want to help and be heard, click here.

Thomas Jefferson said that given the choice between government without newspapers and newspapers without government, he would choose newspapers.

In medicine we have government without newspapers. Patients cannot find out what they need to know to make informed choices. No one in medicine records or reports the information patients need to know the most. So patients will have to do it.

Solutions

(under construction)

People seem to imagine that this is a problem best solved by the government. Sometimes I am asked questions like what government agencies or officials I write to and ply in effort to get something done. The government  cannot stand up to the influence of medicine. Look what happened when it tried to do something about mammography.

The last thing the healthcare industry will allow is for the government to collect data on what is happening in healthcare. One constantly hears about how much liability would be created and how much that could cost. Apparently it is too expensive to discover what is wrong in order to prevent unnecessary death and injury. Nurses won't write it down. Doctors will erase it (see survey and loyalty). Political interests will not allow tabulating what is left.

The solutions have to come from outside government. For my current thinking on what to do about this, visit my home page.

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