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Patient Safety
Silence vs
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Silenced
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Conflict Of
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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
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Exploitation
OSMB Medical
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Mammography
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Medical errors
Medical
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Thomas Jefferson said that given the choice between
government without newspapers and newspapers without government, he would choose
to have 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.
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Catherine Wood and Gwen Graham
Nurses' Murder Game
Catherine Wood and Gwen Graham - Two nurses who together
picked victims whose combined initials, if murdered in the correct order, would
spell out "murder" in what they called their "Murder Game." They picked easy
targets, elderly women who were weak. When their victims fought back harder than
expected the nurses gave up - temporarily. If a couple of patients complained
that nurses were trying to kill them, Wood and Graham knew no one would believe
them. But if more than that did they worried they might get in trouble so they
stopped. Until they saw that none of their victims complained. Wood and Graham
learned that they were free to hone their skills through trial and error until
they figured out how to do it, because none of their victims complained.
I have heard people in medicine
say that this example shows that the problem is that patients didn't bring their
concerns to the authorities. I have not seen anyone anywhere in medicine suggest
what it says about complaint mechanisms in medicine when even victims of attempted
strangulation were not heard from. There is no appreciation in medicine for what
an imposing and unified monolith medicine is to a patient trying to complain
about a member of that profession. Say that to someone in medicine and they
scoff, which is the very first syllable of "unified and imposing."
Medicine is not interested in the predicament of patients with complaints and learns nothing from examples like these. There is no
legitimate complaint mechanism in medicine, only pretenses of such. To say
nothing of the vacuum of law enforcement in medicine. Medicine is so insensitive
to the experience of patients that it has no appreciation for how complaining
comes back to haunt patients.
Doctors can call the state medical boards that are run by and
for doctors. Nurses can call the nursing boards that represent nurses. Hospitals
have hospital associations. Patients have who? No one. This is how patient
safety is handled when healthcare providers have the ultimate authority over how
safe patients will be. The words "complaint" or "lawsuit" frequently are
modified by the word "frivolous" when uttered by people in medicine. Patients
need someone outside of medicine to complain to about medicine. There needs to
be an institution representing patients. State Patients' Boards might be one.
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