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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

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Medical errors
Medical Complaints
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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.

Examples

It says a lot that there is a
National Task Force on Violence Against Healthcare Providers
but no such force protecting patients

If you want to understand a system, look at how it handles its worst moments. The conditions that enable these dramatic cases to occur also allow thousands more abuses to occur with no one noticing other than the victims. And who listens to victims in medicine?

No patient safety initiative can be successful that does not respond to the abuses and depravities that will be committed by any group of people that thinks it can get away with such sins. A system that cannot solve crimes cannot solve less sinister dangers. Medicine lacks the integrity and will to address either, as this list of examples demonstrates. Dismissing them as "one-offs" is one of the ways it avoids admitting to its problems and solving them.

This might be one of the reasons that it has been said that medicine is the vocation that supports crime. If the crimes are not dramatic and covered by the press, the crimes and the victims are dismissed.

If you wanted to understand conditions in prisons
but heard only the voices of guards and wardens,
you would be missing the most important voice.

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