Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Down a slippery slope
"The makers of all products and the providers of all services are obliged to warn the public of possible mishaps: the medical profession should follow suit. Surgeons should protect themselves against being sued by making patients sign a consent form in which it is clearly stated that the patient understands, along with the other risks, that the operation may be unnecessary and could be poorly performed.
Similarly, doctors would be well advised to mount placards in their waiting rooms: 'In medical practice errors of omission as well as commission are common and unavoidable. Sometimes the consequences lead to permanent disability, if not death. Patients who seek treatment here are assumed to have waived all claims.'"
"The makers of all products and the providers of all services are obliged to warn the public of possible mishaps: the medical profession should follow suit. Surgeons should protect themselves against being sued by making patients sign a consent form in which it is clearly stated that the patient understands, along with the other risks, that the operation may be unnecessary and could be poorly performed.
Similarly, doctors would be well advised to mount placards in their waiting rooms: 'In medical practice errors of omission as well as commission are common and unavoidable. Sometimes the consequences lead to permanent disability, if not death. Patients who seek treatment here are assumed to have waived all claims.'"
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Neurosurgeons and other MDs assert, indeed, continually persist in claiming that, when someone's feeding tube and hydration are removed, the patient feels NO PAIN WHATSOEVER. This has been asserted continuously in the Schiavo case, considering, additionally, that Terri's cognitive cortex was liquified. Why, then, is Terri on a morphine drip "for pain"?
I would hope that, should anything similar ever happens to those all-knowing physicians in the future, their loved ones will be sure to keep them OFF the morphine drip.
Saint Louis University
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I would hope that, should anything similar ever happens to those all-knowing physicians in the future, their loved ones will be sure to keep them OFF the morphine drip.
Saint Louis University
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