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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
And add to your list, mistakes made that are covered up, and the patied is lied to about the mistake.
This brings to mind another serious mistake. A doctor orders something like triple the recommended highest dose of lithium over the weekend (because he is inexperienced). Patient becomes very ill and had to receive dialysis. That patient could have died.
The deadly "mistake" that is most common in psychiatry is saying someone is safe and then that person commits suicide. The reason I have quotation marks is that it is very hard to predict. You use all the information you can, then make a defendable best guess.
ERCougar is really what I consider the worst of medicine. He sees the procedures in place to insure safety as nothing but impediments, and has the gall to suggest that the safety procedures kill people. I know enough about him now. Don't need to know anymore.
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I would really love for you to set foot in the ER before you start commenting on "the worst of medicine". Example of how safety procedures kill people? I could give you dozens. But I too know enough about you from the morphine/magnesium example that I think my time would be wasted. You obviously don't know a rat's ass about what happens in the hospital.
But thanks for the comment. Are you a member of JCAHO?