Randy Stewart said:
I will start with: I know that this is a quality forum, not a legal infosite, etc. But, my feelings are that this is a a direct result of the big guy taking advatage of the little guy. Who else or what else can make a point like a lawsuit? I get burned with coffee and I bring a big guy to his knees. I don't agree with the lawsuit, but it is nationally known. Some one stood up to the international conglomeration know as McDonalds. Now we all pay for it!
But tell me, would any of you quality professionals want to inspect a doctors work???? Who is suppose to know what was a good operation and a substandard operation? Not me! I don't want to be the guy that has a sponge left in after a 16 hour operation, but on the same hand I can see 1 of 2000 being missed.
But tell me, would any of you quality professionals want to inspect a doctors work???? Who is suppose to know what was a good operation and a substandard operation? Not me! I don't want to be the guy that has a sponge left in after a 16 hour operation, but on the same hand I can see 1 of 2000 being missed.
Re: doctors and quality
Actually, I'd relish the opportunity to restructure a lot of doctor's processes along with hospitals, pharmacies, nursing homes, and home health care outfits. Every time I visit one or the other, I see procedures which make me cringe.
- Doctors hand out sample drugs without checking a patient's chart for history of adverse reaction to components in the newest reformulation of an old standby (reformulated just to keep ahead of the generics.)
- Why check on the quality of a surgery? Many doctors and nurses don't wash their hands between patients. A recent study in Chicago showed over 10% of doctors, nurses, and aides neglected to wash hands between patients. Is it any wonder bacterial infection increases average hospital stay?
- Hospitals and nursing homes still distribute drugs en masse in little paper or plastic cups lined up on a cart. Easy opportunity for mistakes, theft, switching, etc.
- Pharmacies and/or doctors responsible for wrong dosage or even wrong drug due to misreading similar drug names on scrawled prescriptions.
- Nursing homes which give sedatives to patients to keep them from wandering around, then compound the indignity by putting patients in diapers because they are too drugged to get up and go to the bathroom (also gets increased reimbursement under insurance and welfare "point" systems for extra "care" required to deal with diapers.)
- Home health care workers who drop and injure patients because they are improperly trained in correct handling procedures.
And bust on average people who were hit by their insured who are just trying to get their vehicle fixed fairly and correctly and get a rental while it is in the shop. (Side story) I once got nailed pretty bad in my truck by a guy on the interstate -- his fault and he was ticketed. It was right before deer season. I told his insurance company I wanted a rental truck, not the little Escort they were offering, because I need a truck and lost the use of a truck. They said no way. I said, well, expect the rental agency to bill you for clean-up of their car after I throw a dead deer in it and haul it back home over about 10 miles of rough dirt roads. They got me the truck.
