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Death and the Doctors
Readers of this column may recall that I had a near-death experience fairly recently. Not the good kind, where you meet all the dear ones who’ve gone before you up the golden stairway. Rather, the kind where you get to … Continue reading →
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Tagged admitting responsibility, Aristotle on taking responsibility, betrayal of trust, betraying one's calling, betraying one's oath, Cain and Abel, consequential medical mistakes, coordinating instructions between medical institutions, coordinating medical instructions, coordinating medical prescriptions, criminal indifference to patients, culpable carelessness, doctor failure, doctor-caused fatalities, doctor-caused injuries, dodging responsibility, evading responsibility, fatal indifference, go along to get along, healing arts, Hippocratic Oath betrayed, iatrogenic emergency, iatrogenic fatality, iatrogenic near-fatality, in-house politics, institutional politics, involuntary accidents, irresponsible doctors, judging intentions, lawyers representing hospitals, lawyers who represent doctors, malpractice, medical academies, medical accidents, medical fratricide, medical malpractice, medical manslaughter, medical murder, medical politics, my brother's keeper, politics of experience, practiced evasions, professional irresponsibility, profit motive, taking advantage of the vulnerable, taking advantage of weakness, unchivalrous, unromantic, voluntary accidents, was it intentional
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Treachery and Transcendence
Treachery and Transcendence In a recent column, I told of a problem that arose during a new treatment for my walking handicap. One of the administering nurses routinely used an expression — always accompanied by a little laugh — that … Continue reading →
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Tagged "do no harm", a patient's trust, accusation, acting up, anger, blaming the victim, confrontations, consolation from prayer, cover story, curing injustice, demeaning words, detachment, disrespect, effective treatment, effects of prayer, errant employee, fury, gaslighting, guilt, handicap, in-house politics, incredible, insight from prayer, intelligent hope, keeping it brief, lost trust, lying, manipulation, medical protocol, meta-level, micro-aggression, mind/body connection, minimalist explanation, mischievous employee, neuropathy, nuns, nurse, office politics, outrage, patient's dignity, patient's rights, petitionary prayer, plausible, prayer, promise breaking, promise keeping, reprisal, responsible administration, righteous indignation, self-defense, self-exculpation, self-exoneration, self-protection, sense of dignity, significant dreams, signs of guilt, sympathy, tactlessness, the Hippocratic Oath, transparency, treatment room, trespass, troubleshooter, trust, under the radar, walking handicap, witness consciousness
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