Re: Doctors will be able to get away with murder
Originally Posted by
summer
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Not sure about this to be honest on the one hand doctors should be accountable but on the other I suspect much of medicine and diagnosis is a case of trial and error.
I'm not commenting on the case of the little boy who died in this case as I'm sure other factors were probably taken into consideration and we may not be privy to that information I think though that doctors should have a free hand to make a diagnosis without feeling that if it's wrong they might be stuck off or charged with murder.
So I suppose I'm in favour of the proposal which still recognises that underperforming doctors will face consequences but that the fear of legal action is taken out every day diagnosis.
I think I am with you on this Summer! The child, that died, had sepsis, which is a disease that can quickly kill so needs rapid diagnosis and the correct treatment.
As you say we don't know all the details of this case, so we can't know what the doctor did wrong, and there could have been other factors that contributed to his death, like not recognizing the symptoms soon enough, by family or doctors.( A close friend of mine had it earlier this year, and the hospital moved at break neck speed to treat her!)
Sepsis can be caused by something as simple as a urinary tract infection..... but how many of us would go to A&E if we got that at the beginning of the weekend, when doctors surgeries are not open?
The NHS is underfunded so, until we can solve that problem, doctors will be under pressure and liable to make mistakes!