Comments on: Removing a cancer patient’s only healthy kidney http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/removing-cancer-patients-only-healthy.html Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/removing-cancer-patients-only-healthy.html#comment-84311 Anonymous Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:58:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/03/removing-a-cancer-patients-only-healthy-kidney.html#comment-84311 "Why soft pedal this as a sad situtation that could hardly be helped?"<br/><br/>Because it doesn't fit Kevin's political agenda. Or that of most physicians. “Why soft pedal this as a sad situtation that could hardly be helped?”

Because it doesn’t fit Kevin’s political agenda. Or that of most physicians.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/removing-cancer-patients-only-healthy.html#comment-84293 Anonymous Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:08:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/03/removing-a-cancer-patients-only-healthy-kidney.html#comment-84293 Hopefully there'll be some follow-up reporting on how this happened.<br/><br/>Was it labeled wrong throughout the medical record? Weren't there any diagnostic CT scans? Did the patient and family know which was the diseased kidney? (If they didn't, it would certainly raise some issues about informed consent, regardless of the outcome.)<br/><br/>What a train wreck.<br/><br/>Apparently the hospital where this occurred is considered a leader in patient safety. Let this be a wakeup call to every institution that thinks it won't happen to them. Hopefully there’ll be some follow-up reporting on how this happened.

Was it labeled wrong throughout the medical record? Weren’t there any diagnostic CT scans? Did the patient and family know which was the diseased kidney? (If they didn’t, it would certainly raise some issues about informed consent, regardless of the outcome.)

What a train wreck.

Apparently the hospital where this occurred is considered a leader in patient safety. Let this be a wakeup call to every institution that thinks it won’t happen to them.

]]> By: why spin malpractice?http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/removing-cancer-patients-only-healthy.html#comment-84288 why spin malpractice? Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:43:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/03/removing-a-cancer-patients-only-healthy-kidney.html#comment-84288 "Tragic mistake?" <br/>Why do you soften every instance of real negligence with devastating outcome, in this way?<br/>How about "malpractice". <br/>This kind of error is born from negligence and failure to meet any acceptable standard of care.<br/><br/>Shouldn't physicians come down hard on practicioners who practice medicine so sloppily they actively destroy instead of preserve or restore health?<br/><br/>Why soft pedal this as a sad situtation that could hardly be helped? “Tragic mistake?”
Why do you soften every instance of real negligence with devastating outcome, in this way?
How about “malpractice”.
This kind of error is born from negligence and failure to meet any acceptable standard of care.

Shouldn’t physicians come down hard on practicioners who practice medicine so sloppily they actively destroy instead of preserve or restore health?

Why soft pedal this as a sad situtation that could hardly be helped?

]]> By: Ian Fursthttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/03/removing-cancer-patients-only-healthy.html#comment-84280 Ian Furst Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:21:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/03/removing-a-cancer-patients-only-healthy-kidney.html#comment-84280 Brutal -- with all of the checks we're supposed to do now you'd think this would be an unlikely scenario. <br/><a HREF="http://www.waittimes.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">www.waittimes.blogspot.com</a> Brutal — with all of the checks we’re supposed to do now you’d think this would be an unlikely scenario.
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