Medical Malpractice Lawyer & Information on Workers Compensation
By Stephen Bucaro
Doctors in West Virginia refused to treat patients because of rising medical
malpractice insurance premiums. A majority of doctors in most other states are
cutting back on patient care because of rising malpractice insurance premiums. I
have a riddle for those doctors: What's the difference between an auto mechanic
and a medical surgeon? Answer: An auto mechanic doesn't leave his tools inside
the object he worked on!
A study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard School of
Public Health found that surgeons ignore the standard practice of counting the
surgical tools before and after an operation, resulting in tools being left
inside the bodies of 1,500 people each year. The actual number of people with
surgical tools left inside their bodies is much higher because hospitals are not
required to report mistakes.
Surgeons leave clamps, electrodes, sponges and other surgical tools inside
the bodies of people. In several cases, 11 inch metal retractors where left
inside people. Sometimes the people didn't know that a surgical tool had been
left inside their body. Many of the tools where found in later surgeries.
The surgical tools left inside people often cause obstructions, tissue
damage, or cause infections. The individuals are then required to endure
additional surgery to remove the surgical tools. Claiming "reasons of privacy",
researchers withheld information about people that died from complications
caused by surgical tools left inside their bodies.
Maybe medical malpractice insurance premiums wouldn't be so high if the
doctors stayed awake and alert during surgery, or if they at least followed the
standard medical practice of counting the surgical tools before and after an
operation. I think the doctors are correct to refuse to treat patients. If they
don't treat any patients, they can't leave their surgical tools inside peoples
bodies! ---------------------------------------------------------- Resource Box:
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