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Full Table of Contents
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Home Page
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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Injured patients who want to help and be heard,
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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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A. Other doctors will rush to treat your injuries
Wrong answer. Other doctors believe in and stick up for other doctors. No one
will record what you tell them. Get your medical
records afterwards and you will see. Not only is that their practice, that is a
matter of written policy.
Meanwhile, their reluctance to diagnose anything that could
indict another doctor could make it so that you never get diagnosed or treated. See
white wall of silence.
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B.
The police will launch an investigation
Wrong answer. The police will tell you that there won't be any witnesses so there is
no point in filing a complaint (see
silence versus safety for why there will not be witnesses).
Didn't you ever wonder why doctors become as brazen as Dr.
Allan Zarkin and Dr David C Arndt?
Those two got caught only because this time they indulged in behavior that
automatically left tracks. Medicine is arranged so that there rarely will be
tracks in order to prevent lawsuits (see
risk management).
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C.
You will be stymied and sued
Correct answer.
There is no political will to pursue miscreants in medicine. Other doctors will
not help you. The police are not smart enough to help you. The state medical
board is run by doctors who understand the doctor who raped you (or
whatever) more than they understand you. If you speak too loudly about what happened to you, you
will be sued. You are not the first person in this position. They have a very
well oiled machine for dealing with people like you.
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How many nurses does it take to screw in a
light bulb?
Our nurses do not remember the light bulb of which you speak. We have no
records that could identify which, if any, of our nurses might have been present
for said light bulb. And if, on your own, you should happen to determine who
they might have been, they certainly will not be allowed to speak about it.
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Linked to from above and from
white wall of silence and
from medical information release
and osmb
A matter of
written policy
For instance, the "Physician's Guide to Ohio Law" states that in their
charts physicians should avoid "Criticizing the care that the patient received
from other providers and facilities." One would think physicians at least would
report "patient claims" when something untoward happens, but they don't.
The effect that this has on the ability of injured patients
to get treatment is unstudied and unappreciated. In schools in some states, if a child complains of abuse at home, teachers and administrators are required by law to report it immediately and can lose their licenses if they do not. But a patient reporting the same thing to a doctor cannot even get it entered in his
or her records, let alone get anyone to diagnose the injuries or call the police. Shouldn't the requirement to avoid criticizing other providers be changed so that there is some call to protect patients as well, instead of assuming that the only people who need to be protected are other healthcare providers?
[from the Physician’s Guide to Ohio Law: in a section titled
“Medical Record-Keeping” under the subheading “Charting pitfalls that physicians
should avoid,” sentence number 5 states that physicians should avoid
“Criticizing the care that the patient received from other providers and
facilities.”]
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