Originally posted by Alliance
You're insight is blinding. I'm pre-med, will be accepted into med school this coming year and I have contact with the medical field on a daily basis, including medical ethics, and I work in the medical field.So, you are correct, I'm not a doctor, but my opinion certainly has credentials to back it up, which is more than I can say for you.
Although, in essense, if it can be proven that the doctor was negligent then maybe he has a case. Until then, I'm going to side with the doc.
Q, he's right. Medicine isn't like fixing a car. Every person is different, symptoms present differently, medical tests can be wrong, etc. The human body is immensily different from an automobile, and as advanced as we may feel we are right now, we're not all knowing. Human bodies adapt against medicines, bacteria evolve against tried and true treatment all the time, and, honestly, the body is just ****ing complicated. You can't compare painting a house to building a car, just like you can't compare jumping a car to recussitating a patient in cardiac arrest.
well all said and done this guy lost all he had because he trusted a doctor who was supposed to be doing his job. yes he should have taken a second opinion, yes he should not have squandered his money away without a thought, etc. but is'nt the doctor at fault somewhere????? if he made a mistake he should have to pay for it just as this man is paying for his mistake.
That's the whole point. If he made a mistake. What if the misinformation was unavoidable? One condition parading as another? What if the patient didn't follow up with the hospital (if he was instructed to do so)?
If he did everything right and the results still came out incorrect, how is the doctor at fault in any way?
Originally posted by Kinneary
I'm a corpsman in the United States Navy. You 'have contact' with the medical field? We had a med evac come in from Iwo Jima just today carrying a marine with a collapsed lung. I [b]LIVE the medical field. Once you've finished college, med school and your internship, then come and talk to me. You are not a doctor. You're a college kid. You haven't seen anything. I'm not a doctor either. But at least I don't parade around as one.[/B]
I never said I was a doctor. When I said "we" i mean the medical filed. I'm sorry if you thought I was saying something that I do not intend.
However, I don't work my ass off everyday in lab and at the hospital to be told I know shit about medicine and can't state an opinion. I've never stated my opinion as a doctor, I stated it as someone who is informed. I don't need a rank or a MD in my name to be credible. And don't give me the "I live the medical field" bullshit because you've had one medevac. No one really "lives the medical field." You may treat, but you don't do research. Others may research, but don't treat. Working in a hospital is not like working in the field.
My analysis was perfectly valid and you agree with it and my further comments. I also do a lot of work on medical ethics, which certainly applies to this case.
So, I may be 20, but I'm not a dumbass.[/B][/QUOTE]
Originally posted by Alliance
I never said I was a doctor. When I said "we" i mean the medical filed. I'm sorry if you thought I was saying something that I do not intend.However, I don't work my ass off everyday in lab and at the hospital to be told I know shit about medicine and can't state an opinion. I've never stated my opinion as a doctor, I stated it as someone who is informed. I don't need a rank or a MD in my name to be credible. And don't give me the "I live the medical field" bullshit because you've had one medevac. No one really "lives the medical field." You may treat, but you don't do research. Others may research, but don't treat. Working in a hospital is not like working in the field.
My analysis was perfectly valid and you agree with it and my further comments. I also do a lot of work on medical ethics, which certainly applies to this case.
So, I may be 20, but I'm not a dumbass.