Current Complaint Mechanisms
in Medicine
Nurses do not report problems to state boards or agencies.
Hospitals do not report problems. Physicians do not turn themselves in. When a
patient complains to a hospital that a physician raped her, do you imagine that
the hospital calls the police or the state board of medicine? When the patient
calls the police, do you think the police know how to investigate a crime in a hospital? As
a rule they turn injured patients away saying that no one in a hospital will
testify so there is no point in hearing the complaint.
Felonies are
covered up in hospitals. Incident reports are as good as shredded. When a
patient reports a crime in a hospital to a state board of medicine, do you
imagine that the result is any better?
If you have any doubt about any of what I've said so far,
click on Table of Contents and follow the
links listed below White Wall of Silence.
There are no effective complaint mechanisms or systems for
redress or correction of the worst sins in medicine. If you get raped in a
hospital, you cannot even find a place to report it where you will become a
statistic.
The only source of
information available on the worst sins in medicine comes from patients. And they are sued into
silence if they speak.
State legislatures are passing legislation that protects even
criminal behavior in medicine from liability while leaving patients with
unlimited liabilities merely for speaking about it. That squelches the patient safety debate.
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