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Post Medical Error Suffering - Together We Can Lift This Burden
Category: Seeing Clearly Now
A special thanks today to This Makes Me Sick for bringing to our attention the tragedy of Post Medical Error Suffering (PMES). Finally, this affliction will get the attention it deserves.
I commit to redoubling my personal efforts to bring more medical errors into the light of day and to provide more doctors and nurses the opportunity to compensate their victims. Healthcare professionals, I feel your pain. Help is on the way. Along with you, I curse those risk management and defense instructions to keep your mouths shut.
The Great Untalked About in Med-Mal
The media often talks about the pain visited upon patients and families by medical errors (which is very real), but rarely do they talk about the pain and suffering experienced by medical professionals after medical errors. Sure, there are those healthcare professionals who are cold and callous and truly don't care, but the vast majority of doctors and nurses suffer greatly after a medical error. They beat themselves up and literally grieve.The situation is made worse when risk management and defense counsel tell the doctor or nurse to shut up and abandon the patient/family. Healthcare professionals being told not to heal patients and families who have been hurt only makes a bad situation worse. There are countless stories of clinical depression, ruined careers, divorces, and even suicides among healthcare professionals after medical errors.
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