This just confirms what my ex-husband, who is a practicing physician, has been saying for the last 5 years. He’s 71, in a surgical specialty, and used to welcome young doctors into his practice because he loves to mentor and support them. He’s stopped doing this because their lack of basic knowledge is evident. His biggest complaint is they don’t know anatomy and they’ve been taught to treat symptoms and not the root causes. He won’t retire because he’s worried about the care his patients will receive. Personally, I won’t see any doctor under the age of 45, and then only after vetting them heavily. (You CAN interview and fire a doctor if all he wants to do is push drugs on you. Doctors are your employee, you pay for them!)
Diversity hires are a secondary problem to medicine. Under Obamacare health insurance-for-profit was mandated by law. Most doctors don't doctor because the computer tells them what maximizes the profits. Doctors who don't comply with computerized edicts are fired. Seek alternative medicine when necessary and take care of yourself.
Amen. Doctors are already discouraged from putting the concerns of best for patient care ahead of policy and the medical industrial complex is making it nearly impossible for doctors to have a strictly solo practice. They are forced to join a medical organization that has protocols based upon profit. Not all doctors within these systems are bad or incompetent but the group think mentality of too many health care systems runs counter to the practice of good medicine.
AND... unless they have a concierge practice, and they're still taking insurance, they must see 2 - 3 x the patients (in a day) they saw 20 - 30 years ago, in order to make enough income! I've had physician friends, and they've told me about the nightmare of "managed care." Not only that, but no sane American wants to be a physician anymore. We find it too easy to import doctors who are used to a much lower standard of living. For American docs, the Prize ain't worth the Price they pay for a medical degree anymore.
Amen. Our higher educational systems are designed to keep the wealthy on the top and everyone else fighting for scraps. I believe in capitalism but damn, the abject greed of corporate America is obscene. Capitalism unchecked is just as evil as full on socialism. Of course governments are lousy at business so it’s a crap shoot at best. There are advantages in every system, financial, regulatory and practicality. But there are just as many drawbacks.
The main problems always stem from human nature. Most ppl are more good than bad but none of us are in danger of perfection so the conundrum of humans being human is problematic. Sigh..
I’ve been waiting for Rockefella medicine to die off my whole life. You’d think the plandemic would’ve been the death knell. After my very recent, one and only in my lifetime thus far, nightmare experience in a teaching hospital, I wonder how anyone makes it out alive. All we need is a handful of people that can do emergency medicine, so if we lose 80% of the other specialties, which don’t have an understanding of the human body anyway, we will be just fine.
“… we end up with a purposefully dumbed-down population and a dunderheaded workforce. This causes secondary effects that can even include loss of life.” Say…Boeing ✈️🛩️
So well said. The future of pioneers in American STEM careers isn’t looking good. Our global standing for mathematical skills mastered at graduation of primary education has slipped to well under ten. We used to be much higher on the totem pole and if this decline continues we can expect that America will be taking a backseat to scientific advancement across the board.
This is exactly what happened in South Africa 🇿🇦,now you're lucky if they don't kill you in the hospitals when you go for treatment,I have a condition due to a botched surgery and my father lost the vision in one of his eyes 👀 due to a bugger up during cataract surgery.
Preferential treatment based on anything but behavior is always wrong. However even when you apply something equally it’s not always a good thing. For example, grading on the curve for some engineering programs. All that does is set graduates up for future failure on industry exams where it’s only pass/fail.
When you look at it from this perspective, "The powers that be, are actively trying to destroy Western society as a whole. Whatever methods can bring that about the fastest -- those will become priorities."
Believing that those pushing Wokey nonsense actually think that it will make things better is where people get lost. Understanding that they don't want things to get better is when you start to see what's going on.
We're bringing tons of people across the southern border every day. Why? Are they going to make things better for US citizens? The short answer is NO. The funny thing is that those bringing the people here -- never made the case that it was best for the American people did they? They just lie and say the southern border is secure.
All of this is about crashing the socioeconomic system, because that's the only plausible outcome. Dumbing down the workforce, and bringing in people who are going to be reliant on the government for their survival isn't a plan for success. But then, nobody said it was did they?
I just hope that people start to look around and notice what's going on. We're going to be on our own much more than most would like to imagine. Things will likely keep going the way they are, regardless of who is elected -- because it's the unelected who are implementing the downfall.
The main drivers of this effort are seriously wealthy ppl who will be insulated from the fall out. They hope to eventually turn global power into one ruling oligarchy where they are of course in the top tier. Even in the early days of communist takeover in Russia and elsewhere there were despots who lived higher up on the food chain. Fools who think that there could ever be a fair and equitable society in a socialist run world government are forgetting human history/human nature.
Bidens regime has flooded the US with illegals to speed up the reduction of the white population of the US to below 50 %and to neutralise the MAGA voting cohort.
My son was interested in medicine until he sat down and talked to a physician friend of mine who sold his practice. He said, if you go in to medicine, you better love it because there are much easier ways to make money now and the old days are gone of doctors patient relationships. You are just a well paid employee now. If you factor in the 10 to 15 years of schooling and fellowships, the opportunity costs of that lost income, you are better off becoming an engineer.
You must be old school. I haven’t heard the tag “GP” in many years. Most ppl under 40 don’t even know what that means. My mother worked for a GP for many years. He also delivered babies back in the day and was the Dr to deliver my older sister, myself and younger brother but by the time my mother was expecting my younger sister(1961), only OBGYNs were in delivery rooms. Now you need to see a separate specialist for every body part/system. Even ERs have ER specialists today. Veterinary care is starting to go that way too.
Primary care doctors only treat the most mundane issues and send you to specialists for every/any thing else. There are sub specialties to most general specialties. Orthopedic groups have sub-specialists for arms, hands, back, hips, knees and feet.
Kinda crazy. The Marcus Welby’s are all gone. Even then half of them don’t seem top of class. I think the medical community wants to be seen as all knowing and very capable yet they still can’t fix most problems as well as they want you to believe. I’m sure underwhelmed and not impressed. It’s imperative that you guard your health, do your own research and shop around for truly competent medical care.
Wholeheartedly agree! I consider myself a throwback to earlier times, and given the wisdom I've accumulated in this lifetime as well as knowing about stuff I've never been exposed to (this time around), I suspect I'm a very old soul. I'm definitely "old school," and while my 40's were the best years of my life (up till then) I can happily say the decades following, have gotten increasingly more gratifying. I'm trying to hold off on sleeping upside down like a bat to defy gravity these days, because "aging gracefully" hasn't quite gone as I'd anticipated. Still, I'm grateful I've always paid more attention to my 'inside stuff' than my 'outside stuff,' and my veneer has been pretty agreeable to it. Thanks for your comments! :~)
Frightening! I have been in the medical field for over 40 years, and the steady decline is now a steam engine, rolling over those who are truly good in their field. Goes Along with the progressive socialist view - they want us fat, dumb, uneducated and unhealthy. Easy to rule that way.
This ideology may serve Newsome well, as he can afford to go/send his family to the best hospitals in the nation for the treatment of long term illness/disease. However, in an emergency, he’d best more than HOPE the ED doc and cardiologists, trauma surgeons, etc are competent. This brings back the nightmare of Hillary Clinton commenting about nurses playing cards on their shifts—they both so obviously have NOT required medical care, or have had family members who have…. Their mantras would sound very different. IDK, maybe it’s time for this RN to retire. I don’t want to have to correct undereducated “doctors”! And what about the undereducated nurses who will follow stupid orders bc they don’t know better?!?
Nurses have ALWAYS known more than doctors. It's why physicians develop God complexes, just to feel better about themselves. Their grandiosity is immeasurable!
I fucking HATE Newscum. He has literally RUINED California cities. When does being 'just another pretty face' get rewarded with the Karmic Boomerang?? When he gets shanked by one of those "poor folks" sleeping on L.A. streets, after he slips on a pile of human feces and lands flat on his back. Hope someone takes a photo of it with their new smartphone, compliments of our "government."
Part of the problem in medicine is the myth of the hero physician.
A 1999 report entitled “To Err is Human“ outlined the challenges faced in healthcare by placing all of the burden on individual physicians & nurses.
The number of deaths in healthcare attributed to human error is the equivalent of a 747 airline crashing every single day in America.
As healthcare gets more complex, the number of those deaths, since 1999, has only gone up.
While individual competency is still, and will always be, important, the unique focus that healthcare places on perfection is going to change. It has got to change.
“You’re only as good as your last patient” is a familiar refrain to surgeons everywhere.
The rise of bureaucracy, both government and civilian, has both positives and negatives. I won’t dwell on the negatives here.
The positives of bureaucratized healthcare is that we have the budget and the scale to tackle big problems.
Most deaths in healthcare don’t happen in a fiery ball of flame that shows up on the 6 PM news and gets reposted in 1 billion short videos on every social platform on the planet.
Most deaths in healthcare happen on the midnight shift where the patient gets the wrong dosage or the wrong medication. They happen in bathrooms and bedrooms when the patient slips and falls and breaks a hip and 30 days later dies of sepsis.
Most deaths in healthcare will not be saved by the hero physician or the hero nurse. They will be saved with a “systems approach“ where a dutiful functionary remembers to use a checklist when transferring a patient from intensive care to recovery.
More deaths in healthcare will be prevented when physicians and nurses are required, again by using a checklist, to wash their hands and follow septic protocol before major procedures.
More deaths in healthcare won’t be prevented by moving MCAT scores from the 88th percentile to the 98th percentile.
This just enshrines and solidifies the myth of the hero physician with an encyclopedic knowledge of medical facts and figures and the personality of a computer.
I’d rather be treated by an AI.
I’m not a Pollyanna or a tech bro pump-and-dump booster but I do favor both low tech checklists, recommended by Atul Gawande, as well as high-tech EMR systems that someday may free the physician from administrative burden.
Yep. Medical “mistakes” are the third leading cause of death and most of those are due to medication administration and the occasional misdiagnosis. The incorrect reading of radiological reports is another problem. The estimated number of incorrect readings was almost 50% and that was 25 years ago. I doubt that has gotten better.
You need to be your own advocate and do some research of your health issues and be sure to discuss any discrepancy in your treatment plan with your doctor. They can make mistakes, forget something on your chart from two years ago or any manner of minor but not insignificant detail that might require a change in direction in treatment.
They can also bury mistakes in their notes and charts because the records reflect what was written, not what was actually performed/done/administered.
Hospitals will cover their own asses at all costs. Look up how Neil Armstrong died…the hospital settled and the family signed an NDA. Why is an NDA required? To protect the guilty and hide the evidence.
I have long argued for more patient advocacy but Covid opens my eyes wider than I thought was possible. Between the ACA and Covid, healthcare is on the fast track to hell and the govt is fueling the engines with rocket fuel.
Get multiple opinions from multiple doctors, do your own research, be the patient advocate for your family and yourself, and lastly…buy more ammo.
Amen. Well said. There was a case I read about many years ago now where a child died during a routine minor surgery. The devastated parents met with hospital leadership who had recently been changed. The new medical director decided the best course of action would be to admit the error and offer to settle. Apparently it was common practice to have two stainless steel bowls in the operating room that contained clear liquids but were vastly different chemicals. This was standard procedure in most surgical suite settings. An attending nurse mistakenly filled a syringe with the wrong solution. Within minutes the child died. The parents, expecting to get a snow job were almost taken aback at the candid response. They ultimately settled to ask that a change in protocol that might mitigate the same mistake occurring again be established and that this facility contact regulatory agencies to alert other hospitals about the incident a recommend the proposed change in protocol. The grieving couple didn’t really need money and decided that money would not return their child so they didn’t ask for compensation and turned an offer down.
There are some ethical medical people, even in admin though it’s rare. Too rare.
And some people want AI to help read radiographs/help identify pathogens or abnormal cells. Typically I wouldn’t support that, but in light of this article maybe AI is better.
This happens in the third world. But not because of DEI, rather nepotism. I would think that this DEI business is hiding a lot of nepotism. Also more doctors probably means doctors are cheaper to so the medical industrial complex probably wants to profit this way.
Absolutely. The medical machine is full of greedy middlemen like health insurers. They squeeze the doctors and patients as much as they can. They also have too strong a lobby with the polity yet public concerns can bring about official change too but often only via pricey and long winded litigation.
A suggestion: focus on your stated topic and eliminate the Soros stuff and the last paragraphs after that and instead insert a little more information on the specifics of the knock-on effects of lowered standards on medicine and health outcomes. I think this would greatly benefit your argument and I would be more willing to restack it. Congrats on tackling such an important topic. A friend of mine who is a doctor of pharmacy and who also teaches it had expressed the same concerns for years (pre-pandemic) that you mentioned here. It’s been going on for a while now. And it also goes to the question of basic education, where it all starts. Thanks for addressing this crucial topic.
Well said. At a time when airplanes are dropping out of the sky from gross maintenance errors, and PhD theses are beginning to read like diaries of grievances scribbled by grade-schoolers rather than scholarly research, it seems like maybe this isn’t the time to be actively trying to “dumb things down”. Just like 1984 wasn’t written as a blueprint for political leadership, Idiocracy wasn’t meant to be an instructional video.
Just this afternoon my hubs met with his doctor about a severe ongoing issue he’s having with his shoulders. As she’s listening shes on her laptop and pulls up an explanation of what is causing his shoulder paralysis. The database she used was Google. She actually googled spine issues and shoulder paralysis. I had to leave the room.
This just confirms what my ex-husband, who is a practicing physician, has been saying for the last 5 years. He’s 71, in a surgical specialty, and used to welcome young doctors into his practice because he loves to mentor and support them. He’s stopped doing this because their lack of basic knowledge is evident. His biggest complaint is they don’t know anatomy and they’ve been taught to treat symptoms and not the root causes. He won’t retire because he’s worried about the care his patients will receive. Personally, I won’t see any doctor under the age of 45, and then only after vetting them heavily. (You CAN interview and fire a doctor if all he wants to do is push drugs on you. Doctors are your employee, you pay for them!)
This is what has made me not even go to the doctor anymore.
So true! You and a lot of us feel the same!
Diversity hires are a secondary problem to medicine. Under Obamacare health insurance-for-profit was mandated by law. Most doctors don't doctor because the computer tells them what maximizes the profits. Doctors who don't comply with computerized edicts are fired. Seek alternative medicine when necessary and take care of yourself.
Amen. Doctors are already discouraged from putting the concerns of best for patient care ahead of policy and the medical industrial complex is making it nearly impossible for doctors to have a strictly solo practice. They are forced to join a medical organization that has protocols based upon profit. Not all doctors within these systems are bad or incompetent but the group think mentality of too many health care systems runs counter to the practice of good medicine.
AND... unless they have a concierge practice, and they're still taking insurance, they must see 2 - 3 x the patients (in a day) they saw 20 - 30 years ago, in order to make enough income! I've had physician friends, and they've told me about the nightmare of "managed care." Not only that, but no sane American wants to be a physician anymore. We find it too easy to import doctors who are used to a much lower standard of living. For American docs, the Prize ain't worth the Price they pay for a medical degree anymore.
Amen. Our higher educational systems are designed to keep the wealthy on the top and everyone else fighting for scraps. I believe in capitalism but damn, the abject greed of corporate America is obscene. Capitalism unchecked is just as evil as full on socialism. Of course governments are lousy at business so it’s a crap shoot at best. There are advantages in every system, financial, regulatory and practicality. But there are just as many drawbacks.
The main problems always stem from human nature. Most ppl are more good than bad but none of us are in danger of perfection so the conundrum of humans being human is problematic. Sigh..
Exacerbated and underlined by the thoughtless treatment of covid patients!
Spot on, Ed, spot on!
AMEN!
This is the result of placing students in professional and technical fields where they have no business due to DEI.
I’ve been waiting for Rockefella medicine to die off my whole life. You’d think the plandemic would’ve been the death knell. After my very recent, one and only in my lifetime thus far, nightmare experience in a teaching hospital, I wonder how anyone makes it out alive. All we need is a handful of people that can do emergency medicine, so if we lose 80% of the other specialties, which don’t have an understanding of the human body anyway, we will be just fine.
“… we end up with a purposefully dumbed-down population and a dunderheaded workforce. This causes secondary effects that can even include loss of life.” Say…Boeing ✈️🛩️
So well said. The future of pioneers in American STEM careers isn’t looking good. Our global standing for mathematical skills mastered at graduation of primary education has slipped to well under ten. We used to be much higher on the totem pole and if this decline continues we can expect that America will be taking a backseat to scientific advancement across the board.
This is exactly what happened in South Africa 🇿🇦,now you're lucky if they don't kill you in the hospitals when you go for treatment,I have a condition due to a botched surgery and my father lost the vision in one of his eyes 👀 due to a bugger up during cataract surgery.
Preferential treatment based on anything but behavior is always wrong. However even when you apply something equally it’s not always a good thing. For example, grading on the curve for some engineering programs. All that does is set graduates up for future failure on industry exams where it’s only pass/fail.
Pick standards and stick to them.
They want the society dumbed down as a whole.
When you look at it from this perspective, "The powers that be, are actively trying to destroy Western society as a whole. Whatever methods can bring that about the fastest -- those will become priorities."
Believing that those pushing Wokey nonsense actually think that it will make things better is where people get lost. Understanding that they don't want things to get better is when you start to see what's going on.
We're bringing tons of people across the southern border every day. Why? Are they going to make things better for US citizens? The short answer is NO. The funny thing is that those bringing the people here -- never made the case that it was best for the American people did they? They just lie and say the southern border is secure.
All of this is about crashing the socioeconomic system, because that's the only plausible outcome. Dumbing down the workforce, and bringing in people who are going to be reliant on the government for their survival isn't a plan for success. But then, nobody said it was did they?
I just hope that people start to look around and notice what's going on. We're going to be on our own much more than most would like to imagine. Things will likely keep going the way they are, regardless of who is elected -- because it's the unelected who are implementing the downfall.
The main drivers of this effort are seriously wealthy ppl who will be insulated from the fall out. They hope to eventually turn global power into one ruling oligarchy where they are of course in the top tier. Even in the early days of communist takeover in Russia and elsewhere there were despots who lived higher up on the food chain. Fools who think that there could ever be a fair and equitable society in a socialist run world government are forgetting human history/human nature.
Bidens regime has flooded the US with illegals to speed up the reduction of the white population of the US to below 50 %and to neutralise the MAGA voting cohort.
I don't think it's about race, not necessarily. It's ultimately about control.
They just need a large enough population of people that they know are already softened up to the idea of a socialist tyrannical government.
It just so happens that white people tend to fight back against that more often.
My son was interested in medicine until he sat down and talked to a physician friend of mine who sold his practice. He said, if you go in to medicine, you better love it because there are much easier ways to make money now and the old days are gone of doctors patient relationships. You are just a well paid employee now. If you factor in the 10 to 15 years of schooling and fellowships, the opportunity costs of that lost income, you are better off becoming an engineer.
Or just move to a small town and work as a GP. Marcus Welby, where the fuck ARE ya?
You must be old school. I haven’t heard the tag “GP” in many years. Most ppl under 40 don’t even know what that means. My mother worked for a GP for many years. He also delivered babies back in the day and was the Dr to deliver my older sister, myself and younger brother but by the time my mother was expecting my younger sister(1961), only OBGYNs were in delivery rooms. Now you need to see a separate specialist for every body part/system. Even ERs have ER specialists today. Veterinary care is starting to go that way too.
Primary care doctors only treat the most mundane issues and send you to specialists for every/any thing else. There are sub specialties to most general specialties. Orthopedic groups have sub-specialists for arms, hands, back, hips, knees and feet.
Kinda crazy. The Marcus Welby’s are all gone. Even then half of them don’t seem top of class. I think the medical community wants to be seen as all knowing and very capable yet they still can’t fix most problems as well as they want you to believe. I’m sure underwhelmed and not impressed. It’s imperative that you guard your health, do your own research and shop around for truly competent medical care.
Wholeheartedly agree! I consider myself a throwback to earlier times, and given the wisdom I've accumulated in this lifetime as well as knowing about stuff I've never been exposed to (this time around), I suspect I'm a very old soul. I'm definitely "old school," and while my 40's were the best years of my life (up till then) I can happily say the decades following, have gotten increasingly more gratifying. I'm trying to hold off on sleeping upside down like a bat to defy gravity these days, because "aging gracefully" hasn't quite gone as I'd anticipated. Still, I'm grateful I've always paid more attention to my 'inside stuff' than my 'outside stuff,' and my veneer has been pretty agreeable to it. Thanks for your comments! :~)
Frightening! I have been in the medical field for over 40 years, and the steady decline is now a steam engine, rolling over those who are truly good in their field. Goes Along with the progressive socialist view - they want us fat, dumb, uneducated and unhealthy. Easy to rule that way.
Yep. Make money, pay taxes and stay home. Rinse and repeat..
This ideology may serve Newsome well, as he can afford to go/send his family to the best hospitals in the nation for the treatment of long term illness/disease. However, in an emergency, he’d best more than HOPE the ED doc and cardiologists, trauma surgeons, etc are competent. This brings back the nightmare of Hillary Clinton commenting about nurses playing cards on their shifts—they both so obviously have NOT required medical care, or have had family members who have…. Their mantras would sound very different. IDK, maybe it’s time for this RN to retire. I don’t want to have to correct undereducated “doctors”! And what about the undereducated nurses who will follow stupid orders bc they don’t know better?!?
Nurses have ALWAYS known more than doctors. It's why physicians develop God complexes, just to feel better about themselves. Their grandiosity is immeasurable!
I fucking HATE Newscum. He has literally RUINED California cities. When does being 'just another pretty face' get rewarded with the Karmic Boomerang?? When he gets shanked by one of those "poor folks" sleeping on L.A. streets, after he slips on a pile of human feces and lands flat on his back. Hope someone takes a photo of it with their new smartphone, compliments of our "government."
Yikes, well said. Scary stuff. Thank you for being one who cares. I have a niece who’s an ICU nurse and she takes her job quite seriously.
Part of the problem in medicine is the myth of the hero physician.
A 1999 report entitled “To Err is Human“ outlined the challenges faced in healthcare by placing all of the burden on individual physicians & nurses.
The number of deaths in healthcare attributed to human error is the equivalent of a 747 airline crashing every single day in America.
As healthcare gets more complex, the number of those deaths, since 1999, has only gone up.
While individual competency is still, and will always be, important, the unique focus that healthcare places on perfection is going to change. It has got to change.
“You’re only as good as your last patient” is a familiar refrain to surgeons everywhere.
The rise of bureaucracy, both government and civilian, has both positives and negatives. I won’t dwell on the negatives here.
The positives of bureaucratized healthcare is that we have the budget and the scale to tackle big problems.
Most deaths in healthcare don’t happen in a fiery ball of flame that shows up on the 6 PM news and gets reposted in 1 billion short videos on every social platform on the planet.
Most deaths in healthcare happen on the midnight shift where the patient gets the wrong dosage or the wrong medication. They happen in bathrooms and bedrooms when the patient slips and falls and breaks a hip and 30 days later dies of sepsis.
Most deaths in healthcare will not be saved by the hero physician or the hero nurse. They will be saved with a “systems approach“ where a dutiful functionary remembers to use a checklist when transferring a patient from intensive care to recovery.
More deaths in healthcare will be prevented when physicians and nurses are required, again by using a checklist, to wash their hands and follow septic protocol before major procedures.
More deaths in healthcare won’t be prevented by moving MCAT scores from the 88th percentile to the 98th percentile.
This just enshrines and solidifies the myth of the hero physician with an encyclopedic knowledge of medical facts and figures and the personality of a computer.
I’d rather be treated by an AI.
I’m not a Pollyanna or a tech bro pump-and-dump booster but I do favor both low tech checklists, recommended by Atul Gawande, as well as high-tech EMR systems that someday may free the physician from administrative burden.
We’re not there yet.
Yep. Medical “mistakes” are the third leading cause of death and most of those are due to medication administration and the occasional misdiagnosis. The incorrect reading of radiological reports is another problem. The estimated number of incorrect readings was almost 50% and that was 25 years ago. I doubt that has gotten better.
You need to be your own advocate and do some research of your health issues and be sure to discuss any discrepancy in your treatment plan with your doctor. They can make mistakes, forget something on your chart from two years ago or any manner of minor but not insignificant detail that might require a change in direction in treatment.
They can also bury mistakes in their notes and charts because the records reflect what was written, not what was actually performed/done/administered.
Hospitals will cover their own asses at all costs. Look up how Neil Armstrong died…the hospital settled and the family signed an NDA. Why is an NDA required? To protect the guilty and hide the evidence.
I have long argued for more patient advocacy but Covid opens my eyes wider than I thought was possible. Between the ACA and Covid, healthcare is on the fast track to hell and the govt is fueling the engines with rocket fuel.
Get multiple opinions from multiple doctors, do your own research, be the patient advocate for your family and yourself, and lastly…buy more ammo.
That’s a great outcome to an awful event.
Amen. Well said. There was a case I read about many years ago now where a child died during a routine minor surgery. The devastated parents met with hospital leadership who had recently been changed. The new medical director decided the best course of action would be to admit the error and offer to settle. Apparently it was common practice to have two stainless steel bowls in the operating room that contained clear liquids but were vastly different chemicals. This was standard procedure in most surgical suite settings. An attending nurse mistakenly filled a syringe with the wrong solution. Within minutes the child died. The parents, expecting to get a snow job were almost taken aback at the candid response. They ultimately settled to ask that a change in protocol that might mitigate the same mistake occurring again be established and that this facility contact regulatory agencies to alert other hospitals about the incident a recommend the proposed change in protocol. The grieving couple didn’t really need money and decided that money would not return their child so they didn’t ask for compensation and turned an offer down.
There are some ethical medical people, even in admin though it’s rare. Too rare.
Oh Sarah, you are Oh So Right!
And some people want AI to help read radiographs/help identify pathogens or abnormal cells. Typically I wouldn’t support that, but in light of this article maybe AI is better.
This happens in the third world. But not because of DEI, rather nepotism. I would think that this DEI business is hiding a lot of nepotism. Also more doctors probably means doctors are cheaper to so the medical industrial complex probably wants to profit this way.
Absolutely. The medical machine is full of greedy middlemen like health insurers. They squeeze the doctors and patients as much as they can. They also have too strong a lobby with the polity yet public concerns can bring about official change too but often only via pricey and long winded litigation.
A suggestion: focus on your stated topic and eliminate the Soros stuff and the last paragraphs after that and instead insert a little more information on the specifics of the knock-on effects of lowered standards on medicine and health outcomes. I think this would greatly benefit your argument and I would be more willing to restack it. Congrats on tackling such an important topic. A friend of mine who is a doctor of pharmacy and who also teaches it had expressed the same concerns for years (pre-pandemic) that you mentioned here. It’s been going on for a while now. And it also goes to the question of basic education, where it all starts. Thanks for addressing this crucial topic.
Well said. At a time when airplanes are dropping out of the sky from gross maintenance errors, and PhD theses are beginning to read like diaries of grievances scribbled by grade-schoolers rather than scholarly research, it seems like maybe this isn’t the time to be actively trying to “dumb things down”. Just like 1984 wasn’t written as a blueprint for political leadership, Idiocracy wasn’t meant to be an instructional video.
Just this afternoon my hubs met with his doctor about a severe ongoing issue he’s having with his shoulders. As she’s listening shes on her laptop and pulls up an explanation of what is causing his shoulder paralysis. The database she used was Google. She actually googled spine issues and shoulder paralysis. I had to leave the room.