Friday, September 24, 2004
On the front page
"ER Nearly Killed Me". This was today's front page story on the increasingly tabloid-like Boston Herald. Again, the media takes the easy way out, choosing a lazy, shock-value headline instead of highlighting the real problem of ER overcrowding.
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These stories do sound shocking. Not surprising is that most healthcare workers always side with the hospital. Why is that? What if that had been your family member that had been refused treatment and ended on a vent at a different hospital? Would your loyalties still be with the hospital? Blaming the victims is not the way to a solution and actually it causes much discord between patients and physicians.
I do wonder if the medical profession is completely removed from the realities that make it easier for them to come to the conclusions that they always seem to come to? Would your family member be treated the same at an ER as what the general public is? Or, would they be rushed back and treated just because you are a part of that community? Would that make it impossible for you to see the problem in the same sense as a layperson?
I do wonder if the medical profession is completely removed from the realities that make it easier for them to come to the conclusions that they always seem to come to? Would your family member be treated the same at an ER as what the general public is? Or, would they be rushed back and treated just because you are a part of that community? Would that make it impossible for you to see the problem in the same sense as a layperson?
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: 9:37 PM
: 9:37 PM
Kevin,
I agree with you that the media far more often than not distorts the truth about the problems medicine. That's because sensational news sells better among people always willing to believe the worst of others.
The comment you got seems to highlight this tendency.
However I disagree with your take on this story.
This sounds like a failure of triage. The patient was in DKA. You should not have to wait five hours to be treated for DKA. The triage nurse screwed up.
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I agree with you that the media far more often than not distorts the truth about the problems medicine. That's because sensational news sells better among people always willing to believe the worst of others.
The comment you got seems to highlight this tendency.
However I disagree with your take on this story.
This sounds like a failure of triage. The patient was in DKA. You should not have to wait five hours to be treated for DKA. The triage nurse screwed up.
# posted by : 6:22 PM
: 6:22 PM
