tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968787219619380438.post1987646545787235958..comments2023-09-21T04:02:29.457-04:00Comments on Skeptical Scalpel: More proof medical error is not the third leading cause of death Skeptical Scalpelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13206922456661320751noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968787219619380438.post-58754936540767811932018-12-08T07:50:56.457-05:002018-12-08T07:50:56.457-05:00Anon, what evidence is your first paragraph based ...Anon, what evidence is your first paragraph based on? In the US, most hospitals have electronic medical records that time chart entries to the second. Most notes are written contemporaneously. Anything added after discharge is clearly identifiable. <br /><br />Anecdotes are not proof. Autopsies find lots of things that may or may not be relevant to the patient’s death. Skeptical Scalpelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13206922456661320751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968787219619380438.post-80039970628440602852018-12-07T18:19:38.639-05:002018-12-07T18:19:38.639-05:00From my experience in a western country, the chart...From my experience in a western country, the charts are completely unreliable. Most of them are written retrospectively after the patient is discharged/dead.<br /><br />Just a small example: During a two months hospitalization that resulted in dead, the patient refused to eat and suffered from severe cachexia that definitely contributed to his final demise. However, in the charts you won't find a shred of evidence, because the medical team never took his weight, did not keep tabs on his meals and never ordered the appropriate blood tests (albumin, total protein).<br /><br />So I'm interested to know how the Norwegian auditors would rate the inevitability of this patient's death, for example.<br /><br />I wonder if the Norwegian auditors would have spoken with the families of the deceased instead of relying on the unreliable charts, perhaps their assurance that 958 of those 1000 deaths were unavoidable would not be so high.<br /><br />Much more objective research is autopsy research, and in those studies up to 50% of diagnoses (and therefore treatment) are found to be completely wrong or at least partially inaccurate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968787219619380438.post-28200811936918687572018-10-27T04:58:58.913-04:002018-10-27T04:58:58.913-04:00I would believe the figure of 440000 as a minimum....I would believe the figure of 440000 as a minimum. This research was first conducted by a NASA scientist who lost his 19 year due to medical error. His book Sea of broken hearts explains how this happens. Also having unfortunately been in bad health, I have unfortunately had to endure the horrors of negligent detached incompetent medical professions in my own life and have been left with a chronic condition which has ruined my life. But at least I am not dead. My sister who is a nurse told me a recent story of a man brought in by his wife and 4 year old daughter, long story short he was not treated as he should have been and died. I could go into details but bottom line if the doctors operated odds are he would be alive. Also a lot of covering up by doctors for other doctors. My sister witnessed this as well. In short the day arrogant overpaid ultimately useles doctors are replaced with machines who can be programmed with empathy (the first thing a doctor loses) and superior medical knowledge the better off we all will be.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968787219619380438.post-86078252550871505362018-08-15T08:00:04.559-04:002018-08-15T08:00:04.559-04:00I never believed the hype around medical errors. ...I never believed the hype around medical errors. Anecdotally, I can think of very few patients who've died from true medical errors, even fewer who died from actual doctor error.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968787219619380438.post-11705110100530709202018-08-06T15:43:16.651-04:002018-08-06T15:43:16.651-04:00Anonymous Europe: What patients and families need ...Anonymous Europe: What patients and families need to understand is, that anyone who works makes mistakes at some point. We are also human. We work under the daily threat of lawyers snapping at our heels, whereas our free time(when we may recharge) is reduced to almost nil... <br />Besides the training we receive is more like training bureocrats than surgeons. We should increase training time, decrease documentation time and increase time for recharging. With healthy, rested, well trained doctors the amount of mistakes will also decrease. At least that is my opinion.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968787219619380438.post-82061729770242660802018-08-06T15:24:59.342-04:002018-08-06T15:24:59.342-04:00Clickbait or not, the problem is that real money, ...Clickbait or not, the problem is that real money, time, and resources are being spent on sensationalism. 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