Paying more money to the medical doctors do you think could solve the problem?
Does health care quality depends on the money the medical doctor gets for his/her job?
I agree with Greg!
DAY OF DOOM
NO, the medical field is the same as all others, there is incompetence in all walks of life.
Laura C
over 50,000 are killed by staph infections alone think they should pay cleaning crews more don't you?
Clara Nett
No, there is more to it than that. . .Medical mistakes can happen in many different ways, and not all of them the fault of doctors. .
Fatal errors can happen in a number of ways. . . .
Nurse gives wrong dosage or wrong drug, resulting in the patients death. . this has happened recently with a drug called heparin (and anticoagulant) to babies. . the drug comes in two strengths. . one is ok, the other one kills and part of that problem came from the fact that the manufacturer labels look simular at a glance.
Pharmacy can supply the wrong drug, the wrong dosage, the wrong concentration, mixed in the wrong solution. . all of which can result in death.
Patients, especially long term patients and patients on ventilators are susceptible to infections and pneumonia, often with resistant strains of bacteria, leading to a death.
Patients may have an allergic reaction to a drug or compound causing a death. . many times these allergies are not known to the patient until they happen. .
A lab, may misidentify a bacteria, leading the doctor to proscribe the wrong antibiotic. or they may make a mistake and critical lab values (such as low blood counts) may go unrecognized leading to a patients death. .
And, of course, Doctors do make mistakes. . .
These are all from the perspective of an RN who has worked 15 years in critical care. I have seen many of these things happen over the years. There are many ways that mistakes could happen and lead to a patients death. .
But, to answer your final question, the amount of money that a doctor receives in no way (in my humble opinion) would affect such outcomes. There are good doctors and bad ones. . just like there are good nurses and bad ones. .
Hope this helps
Red F
treadmill stress test kills
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/719280/treadmill_heart_tests_endanger_1_in_2500/index.html
Lisa M
Doctors are human, and are not perfect. Neither are nurses or anyone else in the medical field, so paying more money overall wouldn't make a difference.
Azucar
No. You could pay them outrageous sums of money and there would still be mistakes. Medicine is an imperfect art and human bodies are frail. The best doctors are the ones who pay attention and care and are driven to secede. These doctors are likely to do that no matter what they are paid, but if the pay is too little fewer will be attracted to the field. That's pretty much true about every profession, though. I suppose it's a balancing act between attracting decent doctors and keeping health care affordable.
kill_yr_television
What are you calling "mistakes" here. If a doctor prescribes pennicillin in good faith to a patient who has reported "no know allergies" -- and then the patient dies 60 seconds after the initial injection -- this is not a medical mistake. This is a matter of complications beyond the doctor's control. It was a "mistake" in the sense that there was a bad result, but there was no negligence or malpractice involved.
I think the best step toward a healthier hospital environment would be to increase staffing, everything from nurses right down to floor cleaners. I've left several hospital jobs when I found myself literally running from room to room throwing pill at patients. I have time to address the primary problem, like their broken hip, but secondary problems like ongoing diabetes and cardiac issues are totally ignored as there is simply no time to address them.
Second would be to computerize more systems so that information is both available and LEGIBLE from any computer station in the hospital.
Greg
The surgical mistake most often made is confusing the left and right side of a patient. The medication mistake most often made is not checking to see what other medications the patient is already on.
You will never eliminate all of such mistakes, but by decreasing the workload individual doctors and nurses endure on a shift, you give them more time to spend preparing for surgery and reviewing patient information.
This is where a strictly for profit approach will not help you, and suing after the fact doesn't have much impact because everybody carries malpractice insurance, and from an administrative point of view, it's cheaper to pay for that and push some of the costs off onto individual doctors and nurses than it is to see less patients (and this holds true in private practices too--you make more money and more mistakes if you schedule more patients).
A system that rewards doctors and staff for less mistakes (and preventive care) would provide an incentive to make less mistakes and slow down a bit.
Robert G
put the stat into context, how many 10's of thousands are saved? If a Dr. has a 99% success rate is that not good enough?
firstam2008
No.
The doctors aren't deliberately killing anyone.
It is true that if hospitals stopped cutting MASSIVE unjustified breaks to large insurers and charged what should be charged across the board that they'd increase revenues and could be better staffed.
A LOT of the deaths are undoubtedly from short staffing which is the norm.
If they all used the software programs to verify no med errors (wrote a med that was contraindicated, etc.) that would trim some deaths down.
If hospitals would test for MRSA--that would cut deaths.
Lots of things that could be done, but money per se is NOT the solution.
BTW, it will only get worse--doctors have to keep working more hours (fatigue issues) to try to keep up with increased population, decrease in number of docs willing to put up with the system, etc. They're getting older--and there can be a downside to stamina then and when you're exhausted your error rate goes up.
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