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Patient Safety
Silence vs
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Silenced
White wall
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Silencing
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
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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.
Answer
If you said that the problem was an angry surgeon beating the daylights out of you leaving you partially disabled, you are right.
If a surgeon exits the OR it is recorded as a part of routine record keeping. But if the surgeon is angry or drunk or libidinous and acts out, that is not (further explained in Questions 2 & 3). When people know there will be no consequences, eventually some of them behave badly.
Click here to proceed to Question 2
and you actually get to pick an answer to the next question