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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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Links
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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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Notes 1
"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Speckled Band
Police
The first thing they told me was that there was no point in reporting it
because there wouldn't be any witnesses. Isn't it interesting that they know
that right off the top of their heads? It took a long time for me to understand
how right they were.
the leaders of the past were insufficient,
the leaders of the present are unprepared.
- Charles Bukowski
in "something's knocking at the door"
Ohio State Board of Medicine
According to their own lists of disciplinary actions taken, the OSMB never disciplines physicians on the basis of complaints
filed by patients unless it is a paperwork issue. They did not assign an investigator to my case until so long after the
crime perpetrated on me that routine
document retention policies already would have destroyed any incident report
that might have been filed. When the medical board investigator went to the hospital to find
the witnesses (because I demanded that he do that) they told him they didn't
know who they were and he left.
The hospital
XXXXXXX to prevent me from
telling the name of the hospital. They wouldn't even let me
find out the names of the nurses who witnessed XXXXXX. The nurses had
scrawled their signatures illegibly. Not a bad way to avoid being called as
witnesses. The risk management department told me that if I figured out who they
were, they wouldn't be allowed to talk to me. See survey and
loyalty to see why it didn't
matter when I finally did track them down.
Linked to from index
Why don't doctors record
Doctors never write it down when a patient arrives saying that their
problems began on an operating table. See silence
and written policy.
Treat the injuries
This is the most damning thing in this case. To prevent me from getting the diagnoses necessary to
get justice required preventing me from getting medical care until the statute
of limitations passed, by which time the injuries had become inoperable scar
tissue. This is the part of the case that has a paper trail. I am able to chronicle dates and associate
primary source documents. The laws about keeping medical records
private were passed to protect me, not them. I can make them public if I want,
as long as I don't mind bankrupting myself defending it. It doesn't matter if what I am saying is true. They still can sue.
Dear Hospital (that I am not allowed to identify):
Please stop maintaining the silence that protects miscreants who ruin lives by choice. Such cover-ups did not work for the XXXXXXXX, and they are not
going to work for you.
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