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Full Table of Contents
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Abbreviated
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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
OSMB Medical
Boards
Mammography
solutions
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.
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Dr. Liana Gedz
Surgeon "Dr. Zorro" carved his initials in her
This is from Ms. Gedz testimony before the U.S. Congress
"I truly believe we have a ‘‘white wall of silence’’:
hospitals protect doctors, doctors protect their peers, and in all of this,
crucial information is getting lost. We, as the patient, are in a very
vulnerable position not knowing if you are dead because God wanted to or because
your doctor is insane.
"Please understand I am a doctor myself, and I am not
attacking the medical profession. The United States has some of the most
brilliant doctors and the most sophisticated medical facilities in the world.
But lately, medicine has become more of a business with bottom lines, in
detriment of patient care. Now it is the time to let the public know and choose
who will hold their life in their hands. We shouldn’t make decisions blindly.
"We should be able to question and research. . . I wish I
had that information available to me. I should have—it should have been my
right, as the patient, to have this information."
She is a dentist. Her husband is an oral surgeon. They live
in Manhattan.
See Dr. Allan
Zarkin for more about this case
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