Did you know that about 98,000 people die every year from medical mistakes? The medical profession deals with lots of life and death situations. Surgeries for the brain, heart, and lungs can be fatal, but when your surgeon knows what he is doing, then you can easily put your life in his hands. However, if your surgeon accidentally works on your liver instead of your heart than your life is being put at risk. Health care workers should always be held accountable for their mistakes, because their mistakes could cost someone their life.
Lots of professions such as law and medical demand a lot of education. The average physician spends approximately fourteen years training. Between college and medical school there's a lot of studying involved to become a doctor. Doctors cannot get nervous, and they need to know what they are doing. They need to know which prescription to prescribe to which illness, and how to use medical equipment. Over those fourteen years medical students master those skills, making it hard for them to mess up during an operation or prescription. As the number of classes grows the standards should increase as well. The medical profession has no room for error. …show more content…
Paying attention to every little detail is very important. In the medical profession you work with health, medicines, and the body so if you make a mistake someone's life is in danger. For example, if a doctor prescribes a patient a medication, but didn't pay attention to many of the different synonyms the patient had, the medication could lead to injury or even death. Some mistakes are unintentional like accidently cutting a patient's nerve while operating because of a shaky hand. Then, there are mistakes like working on a patient's left leg instead of their right leg due to drinking. This kind of mistake can easily be avoided if the healthcare worker didn't drink before work. However, if a surgeon had drank a few glasses of alcohol at a party, was called in to perform an operation, and then accidentally killed the patient. He wouldn't have known if he would be called in to perform the operation or not. To prevent the mistake, the surgeon could have called in a colleague to perform the surgery. Mistakes made by health care workers could cost a patient their life. Whether someone makes an accidental mistake or a mistake that could have been avoided they should take responsibility for it.
Even though mistakes in the medical profession is bad, everyone is human. Some mistakes can't be avoided, specifically mistakes in surgeries. Sometimes surgeons make tiny mistakes, resulting in minor injuries. But if the surgeon can fix it there is no punishment. No one would even know about the minor mistake, expect for the surgeon himself. Sometimes in the ER patients come in with cuts. When a doctor is trying to sew it up the patient sneezes and the needle ends up being somewhere it's not suppose to be. The mistake was totally accidental, and neither the doctor nor the patient is at fault. In the medical profession, there is a Medical Board of Examiners. The Medical Board of Examiners acts like a court. They decide the punishments given to those who make both types of mistakes. For example, Dr. Armstrong had his licence taken away because he operated drunk and killed Mary Clees. If Dr. Armstrong continued making that mistake he would have his licence taken away permanently.
Lots of professions such as law and medical demand a lot of education. The average physician spends approximately fourteen years training. Between college and medical school there's a lot of studying involved to become a doctor. Doctors cannot get nervous, and they need to know what they are doing. They need to know which prescription to prescribe to which illness, and how to use medical equipment. Over those fourteen years medical students master those skills, making it hard for them to mess up during an operation or prescription. As the number of classes grows the standards should increase as well. The medical profession has no room for error. …show more content…
Paying attention to every little detail is very important. In the medical profession you work with health, medicines, and the body so if you make a mistake someone's life is in danger. For example, if a doctor prescribes a patient a medication, but didn't pay attention to many of the different synonyms the patient had, the medication could lead to injury or even death. Some mistakes are unintentional like accidently cutting a patient's nerve while operating because of a shaky hand. Then, there are mistakes like working on a patient's left leg instead of their right leg due to drinking. This kind of mistake can easily be avoided if the healthcare worker didn't drink before work. However, if a surgeon had drank a few glasses of alcohol at a party, was called in to perform an operation, and then accidentally killed the patient. He wouldn't have known if he would be called in to perform the operation or not. To prevent the mistake, the surgeon could have called in a colleague to perform the surgery. Mistakes made by health care workers could cost a patient their life. Whether someone makes an accidental mistake or a mistake that could have been avoided they should take responsibility for it.
Even though mistakes in the medical profession is bad, everyone is human. Some mistakes can't be avoided, specifically mistakes in surgeries. Sometimes surgeons make tiny mistakes, resulting in minor injuries. But if the surgeon can fix it there is no punishment. No one would even know about the minor mistake, expect for the surgeon himself. Sometimes in the ER patients come in with cuts. When a doctor is trying to sew it up the patient sneezes and the needle ends up being somewhere it's not suppose to be. The mistake was totally accidental, and neither the doctor nor the patient is at fault. In the medical profession, there is a Medical Board of Examiners. The Medical Board of Examiners acts like a court. They decide the punishments given to those who make both types of mistakes. For example, Dr. Armstrong had his licence taken away because he operated drunk and killed Mary Clees. If Dr. Armstrong continued making that mistake he would have his licence taken away permanently.