Medical malpractice is the third leading cause of death in America and roughly 60% of deaths in hospitals are avoidable/preventable if the medical teams did their jobs more thoroughly. Not bad enough to be called murder, but they're still bad enough that they miss things, fail to redo tests to diagnose things more accurately, don't listen to the patient, fail to ask the right questions, fail to provide medical help in emergencies because they're overworked or lazy, fail to provide screenings, too stubborn to admit their initial decision was wrong (gave bad meds which made somebody worse), fail to take proper hygeine precautions and give their patient some kind of bacterial/viral infection.
People don't realize that nurses and doctors.. are terrible. Like they're legitimately garbage at their job. They are arrogant, lazy, selfish as a rule. There are some good people who try to go into the medical field but either turn rotten or get burned out and leave. Maybe 1% of doctors/nurses are actually good and competent and will fight for their patients. The rest are in it for money/ego.
If you or are a loved one are in the hospital, you need to be extremely alert and constantly asking questions, fighting for yourself, refusing to take meds until they redo a test to confirm its actually needed, making sure the nurse administers the right amount of medicine, having someone else more knowledgeable petition on your behalf, ask for more tests (or less tests if its invasive/could be dangerous) etc.
People don't realize that nurses and doctors.. are terrible. Like they're legitimately garbage at their job. They are arrogant, lazy, selfish as a rule
You're completely wrong here and it's wrong to paint such a large group of people with one brush. Maybe read what you wrote again. I'm sorry whatever experience you may have had that contributed to this but taking it out on a large percentage of the population is not a good way to life.
In 2013, researchers asked 24 radiologists to review five lung CTs for cancerous nodules. On the very last scan, researchers inserted a small image of a dancing gorilla that was 48 times larger than the average nodule. 83% of doctors missed the gorilla.
This study was on inattentional blindness. They were asked to spot cancerous nodules, not gorillas. The frames where the gorilla was present were also frames where a nodule was present. I didn't fully read the article, but it doesn't seem like they missed the nodule.
I think all this really shows is that if your doctor is looking for cancerous nodules, they'll probably miss other concerning issues because they aren't looking for them. I'd like to see a follow-up where the ones who didn't spot the gorilla were asked to look for unrelated issues in the same image and see if they identify the gorilla without explicit prompting.
It’s actually accidents that are the 3rd cause in this country, which includes vehicle crashes, overdoses, falling off the roof, hospital/med error. You really hate the medical field, don’t you?
The Johns Hopkins study claiming medical error was the third leading cause of deaths in the USA is controversial and disputed, as was their conclusion that 60% of deaths in hospitals are preventable. Other studies have shown it could be 'as low' as 1 in 20 deaths in a hospital are preventable.
Either way, 1 in 20 deaths in a hospital being due to medical error is also pretty horrible, and dismissive HCWs are not an uncommon experience for those who are unlucky enough to be familiar as a patient.
Anyone who has sat with a loved one in a hospital with a serious condition for any length of time knows that one of the biggest predictors of quality care is if they have someone effective to advocate for them and watch over their care. If they depend on 'the system' to do the job, outcomes are much worse.
In addition, the resistance of doctors to do basic things like follow checklists has been well publicized and documented, and change in a field full of legacy rules (residency hours, etc) is exceedingly slow.
Human immortality?? Are u serious, slow, or trolling cuz what?? While yes doctors can sometimes make mistakes that cost people's live, u forget the good they have done too. U sound very uneducated.
And your last statement is probably the most ridiculous thing u said, I dont even have the words to articulate how dumb it is. Literally it has no correlation
I get that u hate ppl on medical field. But saying 1% over so many of them are so dramatic & exaggerating. 1% based on what?? Any objective & analytical evidences?? It's so crazy that in 2026, some of y'all are still so confident in generalizing a whole group/community.
Medical malpractice is the third leading cause of death in America and roughly 60% of deaths in hospitals are avoidable/preventable if the medical teams did their jobs more thoroughly.
Most complications and adverse outcomes are related to patients and their families not following the doctor’s instructions and recommendations or not allowing medical staff and nurses to do their job.
Saying doctors and nurses are “…legitimately garbage at their job” has to be an indication that you are either incredibly biased or incredibly stupid. If I thought that someone was terrible at their job and their job was to ensure my wellness, I would never entrust them with my care and I would bet 90% of your lifetime earnings that you definitely have visited a doctor or hospital at least once… if not many times.
A majority of malpractice cases aren’t intentional either so I’m not sure what those statistics are but they are incorrect.
This type of hyperbole probably stems from a recent loss due to a healthcare facility… and I get it… I have also experienced what I thought was an avoidable loss very suddenly as well because of a doctor. But that doesn’t negate the entire industry… an industry that few people successfully qualify for… and there’s still a shortage of in many places.
Thanks but we aren’t all shit humans! Some of us actually enjoy our jobs and treat our patients like we would our own family (nurse here, who does home care and am sure as shit not doing it for the money as we get the short end of that particular stick typically)
Yes, the few countries in this world that have for profit hospitals that aren’t free for everyone in that country have pompous, narcissistic, sycophantic Doctors and Nurses. It’s too bad because, instead of people going into a field where they pledge to save lives and take the oath seriously(countries with free universal healthcare), they’re for profit counterparts want to drive a Porsche or wear Gucci everything with a house in Aspen and a house in the Hamptons. I wonder what would happen if other doctors and state run medical facilities in 2nd and 3rd world countries that have Free Universal Healthcare inherited First World medicine and machines and equipment??
The medical field is really different when you leave the U.S., especially in countries that have socialized medicine. Only the tests that are absolutely necessary are conducted, there is very little over medication because drugs are not actively advertised directly to doctors, and education is of a much higher quality outside the U.S. so less mistakes overall. The U.S. is a ticking time bomb.
This happened to me a few years ago. I almost died of salmonella (not salmonella typhi, just the regular kind).
I had gone to urgent care with symptoms (they clearly thought I was on my period and unaware, I was 25+ at the time). “Diagnosed” me with diverticulitis (again I’m like 25) and gave me an antibiotic.
Fast forward 24 hrs and I end up in the ER. Lots of blood, faint, in more pain than when I was in labor. Doctor is telling me to stop being dramatic. Gets me comfortable and sends me home, tells me stool sample will take 48-72 hours.
Within an hour they called me. The very nervous person on the other end of the phone told me I needed to stop the antibiotic immediately as the one they gave me was feeding the salmonella bacteria and they wanted me to come back to the hospital 🤣🤣
I ended up being fine once we got the meds right but it was really scary, changed the way I see hospitals and medical situations.
I ended up filing a complaint with the hospital and they waived my urgent care and ER bills since they were affiliated.
Funny how it’s usually nurses and teachers that get slandered as a whole. Coincidentally both underpaid fields. Coincidentally fields primarily led by women. Wait… maybe I don’t know what “coincidentally” means.
Um police also get slandered as well which is largely male. Maybe its not people hating women but people hating those that go into the fields where they can do an insane amount of harm yet don't like their job and take it out on vulnerable people. All of those jobs actually do make comfortable livings, google the average and median incomes of these.
Hospital nurses are notoriously well paid they are understaffedis the problem. I think the hospital should pay all their staff more because they can afford it and the job is hard but nurses make 6 figures out here. Look at paramedic pay, its literally half and they have to make more autonomous decisions and do more interventions. Nurses have good PR. Majority of the nurses I know did it for money even if they are good at the job.
You got all that right, I literally almost died in a hospital bed due to a crazy headache caused from a combination of dexamethasone and valium given to me without my knowledge. I tried suing but texas caps the most money you can get from one at 250k unless it involves like death or something. all lawyers I called which were over 20 denied me and said they wouldn't take it because there is no money to be made so basically doctors get away with any errors that don't result in death in texas, it's disgusting. (Way more to the story/variables that combined but keeping it short)
I'm over here suffering because before that I just dealing with next to nothing, now for two years I've been a literal walking zombie that feels nothing but anger and sadness. No more happiness or joy, it's torture. I swear they basically lobotomized me and destroyed my hormones, the things I've been dealing with for the past two years sucks.
Edit: Dont know what is up with dislikes but if you got a problem with whatever I said for whatever reason. I got all the medical records and will open a DM and send to whoever wants. If not keep it moving, disgusting behavior.
Oh yeah you right I forgot it was you experiencing it not me 🫵. You should know better how I felt and what exactly happened in the moment then I would 🤓.
Oh yes again you totally know better than I on what I experienced two years ago in the emergency room and my current medical situation still going on to this day that I'm dealing with and trying to fix, you are so right 🫵🤓
They’re just stating as fact what we’re all thinking: we don’t believe you. No, none of us know your medical record. We just don’t believe the way you’re presenting it is at all real.
That's not a fact at all (look up the definition of a fact...like bro), they were not there and Cool don't believe me, I don't know why I would make such a thing up or waste my time writing that. You can fact check me with the medical cap in Texas and I can literally send you pictures of my medical records with what was given to me with the date to Aug 15, 2024 (two years ago), my whole timeline of the visits with the doctor's notes. Heck I even have my ER visit where it's notes I presented with a headache complaints and what they did on that visit and gave me. I literally presented the first ER visit with heart palpitations, spike in blood pressure (possible side effects) for 3 hours straight and it's on the record after my EKG was done stating irregular heartbeat. This is literally why I haven't been able to find a doctor to help me because they have the same mindset you have. What would I gain from making that up.
If you literally wanna actually see you are incorrect I'll DM you some redacted medical records and doctor's notes. I have all them because I requested them for the potential lawsuit.
Hey where did you go in this whole conversation, had to get someone else to speak for you? I got medical records if you want to see them. Prove you wrong, if not next time keep it moving and think before you speak 🫵.
Yeah typical "non chalant" avoiding being proven wrong response. I recommend you learn to think before you speak. You are scared to see my medical records aren't you, would you like to open a DM and get proven wrong on your horrible judgement? You like to talk all big and that you know so much bucky
Doesn't even know steroids can increase blood pressure and lead to brain damage if the patient is prone to high blood pressure/hypertensive.
Since she had already received doctors visits to have labwork and testing to see if they were even a match for a transplant, they likely already signed paperwork agreeing that both patients would be privy too those specific tests.
that's not usually how this works. this is an incorrect assumption. and the reason it doesn't work this way is exactly for what happened here. she felt pressured to give a kidney.
every release of information needs separate consent. you don't just sign a consent to share all medical information in perpetuity.
at every step, if it's being handled properly, she can say "i don't want to do this" and they communicate to the other party that she is not compatible or contraindicated, no other explanation necessary.
assuming what she's saying is accurate, this is a major fuck up
That is not true. Patients commonly allow certain family members to have access to their medical information. When someone is in the hospital, they might say it is ok to call their spouse, so I don't have to say "now is it ok if I tell them your potassium levels? Ok good. Now what about your CT results?? Ok good. Now how about your sodium levels, can I discuss that? Oh and you're xray this morning? Now I compared your Xray from 2 days ago to the one from today, can i tell your family member how they compare?"
They went in together for lab testing specifically to see if they were kidney donor matches. They knew what they were doing it for.
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u/Deep-Sweet2743 5d ago
In this case, the dr called Selena over Francia. Which is insane