Medical Mlpractice Equals Lottery According to One Doctor
Dr. Deane Waldman, in an article in the Huffington Post, equates medical malpractice to winning the lottery. In fact, in the beginning of his article, he posts the following tacky picture:
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Has this guy ever sat down and even talkd to a victim of medical malpractice? I bet not. All he does is try to convine the reader of all these facts about medical malpractice and states that there is data to back it up. However, he provides no data and the fact are all wrong.
The one area I want to address is the following comment:
Human-ness
If you accept that we are all human and that humans are by nature imperfect, what about nurses and doctors? Are they allowed to be human? No, society demands that they produce perfect results every single time time.
Yes, doctors are human, but so are the engineers that design cars, airplaines, bridges, etc. and so re air traffic controllers, and so are people like you and me that drive cars on a daily basis. We are all held accountable for our mistakes, but doctors such as Dr. Waldman believe that they should not be. People do not expect perfection, butpeople do expect accountability, even for doctors.
Dr. Waldman rather portray the injured as Lottery players.
I am sure if asked whether these victims of medical malpractice would rather wn the lotter or be whole again, I believe we know what the answer would be.
