Why Should We Be In Awe Of Doctors And Surgeons ?

[pattricia]

Reading about the thousands of women who were treated by the rogue breast cancer surgeon, I was disgusted by his colleagues who let things get passed when they knew he was doing wrong. Why do we hold doctors and surgeons in such regard ? They should be treated like any other profession , and brought to task when things go wrong. These poor women patients have been to hell and back. Firstly some patients had never had breast cancer to start with, and others had not had tissue removed, which caused the cancer to come back. 
 

These surgeons should be treated like any other profession, and brought to task, questioned thoroughly, and dismissed if found to have done wrong. 

[geared]

They usually are?  Medical negligence cases are pretty big so the NHS is hot on making sure stuff is done properly.

 

Clearly it's an isolated case, but it's worrying the management at that hospital were so completely useless this went un-checked.

 

[pattricia]

12 minutes ago, geared said:

They usually are?  Medical negligence cases are pretty big so the NHS is hot on making sure stuff is done properly.

 

Clearly it's an isolated case, but it's worrying the management at that hospital were so completely useless this went un-checked.

 

I still don’t think patients complain enough. I was a State Registered nurse and my brother in law a consultant surgeon. I wonder how many medical mistakes have gone unnoticed ?

[Flanker7]

Straight question straight answer =

Because they can cut our bodies open and fix bits that are going wrong. Pretty awsome in my book.

 

Is that really what you were asking? - (passive agressive)

[Pettytom]

8 minutes ago, pattricia said:

I still don’t think patients complain enough. I was a State Registered nurse and my brother in law a consultant surgeon. I wonder how many medical mistakes have gone unnoticed ?

I think there is a difference between honest mistakes and deliberate, malicious activity. 
 

We need a health service that protects doctors who make mistakes, but we also need it to have robust procedures to root out the rogue doctors 

[pattricia]

13 minutes ago, Pettytom said:

I think there is a difference between honest mistakes and deliberate, malicious activity. 
 

We need a health service that protects doctors who make mistakes, but we also need it to have robust procedures to root out the rogue doctors 

True. But you cannot make too many mistakes when it’s a matter of life and death.

[cressida]

Agree with the above.

 

I'm not in awe of them,  perhaps because I watched too many old black & white films where the characters certainly weren't in awe,  like me they knew what the 'S' in NHS stood for,  they were treated with respect but the health doctors didn't overstep the mark

[Pettytom]

17 minutes ago, pattricia said:

True. But you cannot make too many mistakes when it’s a matter of life and death.

I didn’t mean repeated mistakes. I should have made that clear.

[francypants]

Genuine Doctors/ Surgeons are clever people but I do find some of them to be pompous.

[hauxwell]

1 hour ago, francypants said:

Genuine Doctors/ Surgeons are clever people but I do find some of them to be pompous.

I can put up with surgeons being pompous and self important as long as they are good at their job and don’t make mistakes.

 

I do feel when it comes to GPs they need to be more approachable.