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Shredding The Truth About Medical Errors
Category: Seeing Clearly Now
There is nothing sexier than women who are on the right side. That is the motto of And Rightly So. I will not comment on the motto, even though it is worth exploring. Its most recent article is what really caught my attention. There is a feeling of eye-opening discovery to the words:
It makes sense for medical people-doctors and nurses- to have access to the data of their peers who have made mistakes. It’s how people learn. Case studies. You read a case, see where the errors occurred and make sure you don’t do the same thing. In New Hampshire, medical errors cases are shredded 30 days after a decision is made about the outcome of a licencsure issue. It would help doctors immensely, if they could understand where problems are. Malpractice issues might not be so common.
Here we have someone with an apparently conservative philosophy who is willing to admit that doctors and nurses do make mistakes and that it would help all of us if they could actually learn from their mistakes. The author seems to have focused on the practice of shredding the records of review boards as thwarting the ability of the medical profession to improve the quality of care. While I appreciate the author's aha moment, i believe the shredding of the truth of medical misdeeds goes far beyond the records of a regulatory board.
I would urge the author to take a look at the history of peer review and regulatory boards who see no evil and speak no evil 99% of the time, the hospital charts that contain coverups, the defense experts who expand acceptable medical practice to include everything short of drunkenness in the operating room and legislation that creates barrier after barrier for injured patients to scale. Open your eyes just a little wider. Shredding some paper is only one small obstacle to getting the truth and learning from it.
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