I agree. But at least I now know where to go to find perfect medical care. No longer need I worry about physician error. The good folks of Massachusetts now mandate that humans (doctors) are forbidden from making mistakes. And to think all this time I considered only one entity to be perfect. Thanks for enlightenment, Massachusetts!
Let me say first – it’s sad & difficult when anyone dies. Now, onto my comment….
Why do the courts keep taking away individual responsibility? No one is perfect and mistakes always happen. Over & over more people are paying for others mistakes.
Doctors – no one is all knowing. They do the best they can within the limitations the Health Insurance Companies put on them & their billing/referrel structure. If you don’t like what the doctors say (or don’t say), go somewhere else for a 2nd opinion. I have been with my primary care physician since I was a teenager. I have sought 2nd and even 3rd opinions if I felt the need. There should be a standard and all doctors are not as qualified as perha[s they should be. Make malpractice for those that do wrong & cause injury/death. The price is skyrocketing & there is no end in sight is the courts keeping making people more & more accountable for things they sometimes have no control over.
As we all say – courts need to stop making the laws & strictly enforce the. Our law makers also have to make the laws a bit more plain so that there is less space between the lines to read into.
I got a 2nd, 3rd and 4th opinion, and they all dismissed me. Guess what. Eventually the bone infection erupted and I almost died. It’s not that doctors aren’t perfect, it’s that they often dismiss a patient, repeatedly – especially with the vague symptoms. They’re all terriably arrogant. Both my parents died because their complaints of 2+ years were dismissed, until it was too late (heart attack and cancer). My god-mother, the last conversation I had with her was, on Monday we’re going into Boston and finding a doctor who will listen. She didn’t make it until Monday. Even I knew that when a very active and healthy 73 year old starts complaining of arm pain, problems with their vision and headaches it’s a warning.
I Do agree with you Reality – there are some who are not good at what they do & dismiss people. Again – you are the consumer and need to be proactive about yourself. Glad you got the opinions and are okay now – bad that they didn’t diagnose you though.
Taking a line from Gill Fin – they are only human and humans make errors. Some are in professions where those errors can cost lives, others aren’t.
Malpractice Insurance is there for errors, but should not include errors is diagnosing properly. Most diagnoses are best guesses and there are a battery of tests some go through and they still can’t find a cause (I’m one of them). FYI – my Mom died @ 36 because her cancer was misdiagnosed When they went in to do the surgery they thought she needed they found the cancer and it spread rapidly after that. That was back in the early 70’s. They didn’t know then what they know now and they will know so much more years from now.
How much can we really hold the doctors accountable for – surgery errors, medicinal prescription errors, inappropriate conduct with patients and the list goes on. When we start to get into the grey areas – diagnoses, lack thereof, how long would a patient have lived if the doctor diagnosed him 10 years ago instead of 5, etc. it just hurts us and the practice of doctoring.
We as a society have to be really careful how ” sue happy ” we let people get. The courts need to start upholding the laws and not reinterpreting them. The buck has to stop somewhere or we soon will not be able to walk out of our homes without someone suing us because we looked at them wrong and hurt their feelings.
I agree. But at least I now know where to go to find perfect medical care. No longer need I worry about physician error. The good folks of Massachusetts now mandate that humans (doctors) are forbidden from making mistakes. And to think all this time I considered only one entity to be perfect. Thanks for enlightenment, Massachusetts!
Let me say first – it’s sad & difficult when anyone dies. Now, onto my comment….
Why do the courts keep taking away individual responsibility? No one is perfect and mistakes always happen. Over & over more people are paying for others mistakes.
Doctors – no one is all knowing. They do the best they can within the limitations the Health Insurance Companies put on them & their billing/referrel structure. If you don’t like what the doctors say (or don’t say), go somewhere else for a 2nd opinion. I have been with my primary care physician since I was a teenager. I have sought 2nd and even 3rd opinions if I felt the need. There should be a standard and all doctors are not as qualified as perha[s they should be. Make malpractice for those that do wrong & cause injury/death. The price is skyrocketing & there is no end in sight is the courts keeping making people more & more accountable for things they sometimes have no control over.
As we all say – courts need to stop making the laws & strictly enforce the. Our law makers also have to make the laws a bit more plain so that there is less space between the lines to read into.
I got a 2nd, 3rd and 4th opinion, and they all dismissed me. Guess what. Eventually the bone infection erupted and I almost died. It’s not that doctors aren’t perfect, it’s that they often dismiss a patient, repeatedly – especially with the vague symptoms. They’re all terriably arrogant. Both my parents died because their complaints of 2+ years were dismissed, until it was too late (heart attack and cancer). My god-mother, the last conversation I had with her was, on Monday we’re going into Boston and finding a doctor who will listen. She didn’t make it until Monday. Even I knew that when a very active and healthy 73 year old starts complaining of arm pain, problems with their vision and headaches it’s a warning.
I Do agree with you Reality – there are some who are not good at what they do & dismiss people. Again – you are the consumer and need to be proactive about yourself. Glad you got the opinions and are okay now – bad that they didn’t diagnose you though.
Taking a line from Gill Fin – they are only human and humans make errors. Some are in professions where those errors can cost lives, others aren’t.
Malpractice Insurance is there for errors, but should not include errors is diagnosing properly. Most diagnoses are best guesses and there are a battery of tests some go through and they still can’t find a cause (I’m one of them). FYI – my Mom died @ 36 because her cancer was misdiagnosed When they went in to do the surgery they thought she needed they found the cancer and it spread rapidly after that. That was back in the early 70’s. They didn’t know then what they know now and they will know so much more years from now.
How much can we really hold the doctors accountable for – surgery errors, medicinal prescription errors, inappropriate conduct with patients and the list goes on. When we start to get into the grey areas – diagnoses, lack thereof, how long would a patient have lived if the doctor diagnosed him 10 years ago instead of 5, etc. it just hurts us and the practice of doctoring.
We as a society have to be really careful how ” sue happy ” we let people get. The courts need to start upholding the laws and not reinterpreting them. The buck has to stop somewhere or we soon will not be able to walk out of our homes without someone suing us because we looked at them wrong and hurt their feelings.