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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
One number
Links
Injured patients who want to help and be heard,
click here.
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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Sexy labor room nurse
This story is related in the book "I'll never have sex with you again!: Tales
from the Delivery Room" by Irene Zutell and Larry Bleidner. It's not fiction.
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A. Shout
for help
WRONG: In such a situation, calling for help could end your career. You
might never work in your field again.
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B. Try to protect
the patient
WRONG: Hospital personnel are prohibited from interfering with anything
that a surgeon might do, even if the surgeon is drunk or violent.
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C. Say or do nothing
CORRECT: This is what risk management departments train
medical personnel to do. For an explanation, click
here.
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Mission Statement of the Ohio State Medical Board:
To protect and enhance the health and safety of the public through effective
medical regulation
One of their published goals is:
Prohibit persons from practicing medicine whose violations are so egregious as
to forfeit the privilege
They routinely dismiss cases on the basis of insufficient evidence (and what kind of evidence do
they expect to find when operating the way they operate). In an instance we followed, they were given unmistakable evidence of unfriendly practices. It took them two years to decide that they are not charged with enforcing the applicable laws. Perhaps their published goal should say "violations so egregious, unless they are really,
really egregious." They decided it wasn't their job. We cannot find instances in which they
have disciplined doctors on the basis of complaints from patients about anything. They license medical doctors, doctors of osteopathic medicine, doctors of podiatric medicine, physician assistants, anesthesiologist assistants, massage therapists, cosmetic therapists, acupuncturists, mechanotherapists, and
naprapaths.
You would expect that, with 22 investigators, they would help some patients who report rape or assault or such like. Normally they dismiss such cases for lack of evidence. When they cannot do that, they find that they are not charged with enforcing the applicable laws.
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