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GoddessDustyGold -> RE: Doctors (3/10/2005 11:59:32 AM)
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ORIGINAL: phoenix52
i also have to wonder what the criteria are for deaths directly caused by doctors. Is that, doctor prescribed a toxic drug combination and patient died, or, doctor did their best during surgery, patient died, and greedy family sued? Sometimes terrible things happen and it's not anyone's "fault". Some of the "malpractice" cases i have heard of are just ridiculous.... ie Terry Schiavo, the woman in Florida in the vegatative state, her family sued her gynocologist (and won) because she had a heard attack due to bulemia. i suppose the idea there is that all gynocologists should screen all women for the electrolyte imbalances that come with bulemia, "just in case".
i don't know if that kind of thinking has anything to do with the numbers here, just an idea.
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(B) Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year are 120,000
I read this as the operative word being "accidental"
There are always cases where the Doctor has done his best, but, at times, things can't be helped. Careless medicine can be helped.
And I actually do feel that it is a good OB-GYN's responsibility to be screening any pregnant woman under his care for any possibilities. I don't know all the circumstances, and I agree that often doctors (and even McDonald's...) are subject to frivolous law suits. Bulemia can and should be caught by a good doctor, whether the lady is pregnant or not. There are always exceptions, of course, and this is JMO.
When I think of the number of incidents that go unreported (I have some personal experience with this) and the number if incidents that are easily covered up, 120,000 may not even be close!
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