The Internist - Avoidable Medical Malpractice Case

The internist and the avoidable lawsuit (based on a true story)




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[UnicornBeeches]

Shouldn't the lab themselves also report the mix up? Why must the doctor be responsible and why did he not know that when such a thing happens that he should alert the hospital? Did they even inform their doctors of such a protocol.

[oawefajweee]

Why is the doctor getting sued for the lab's mistake? I get it that he should've reported the incident, but it was the lab that made the direct error, and the burden of the mistake lies with the lab also.

[jz]

There is no way that young doctor is at fault. It clearly falls on the hospital and labs responsibility for LITERALLY making the error and not on the doctor for receiving it. He didn't mismanage anything. You should also show how well these lawsuits go through.

[madara]

Ok i'm currently a newbie on the intensive care unit and i never would have thought that a hospital has a risk management team that i had to report such things

[Wolham]

Medicine: we want a blame free culture where growth and learning is promoted for the sake of patient safety.

Also medicine: this doctor didn't report someone else's mistake and so he takes the entirety of the blame.

[fargrghy]

so zach hoover is discharged with his cane and he is just fine with it?..

[folumb]

the last two videos in this series have me scratching my head about how the physician can be named in the suit. Someone is definitely at fault, and the proper thing to do would be to report the lab error, but I don't fully believe that a successful suit can be brought on this basis. The error that killed the patient was not the physicians' fault even if he should have reported it to ensure no future patients were harmed. The previous video details a radiologist named in a suit for not successfully contacting a patient about an incidental finding (an unlikely scenario as ordering physicians are always tasked with counseling patients on test results they order and it's highly unlikely a radiologist would personally contact a patient for whom they were asked by another physician to interpret a study).

[RitoB]

Moral : don't dream to be a doctor when you are a teenager, take decision after seeing every aspect

[smaerDrM]

feels good to live in europe... ofc we have malpractice lawsuits, but when it's actual malpractice, not for these kinda things, this case would never make it to the court in EU

[johnnybravo]

what is cause of zack's weakness?

[padelackles]

The only way the doc could be blamed for not reporting for a RCA is if another patient later had been injured due to a similar error, right? Which a RCA might have prevented. Who on the decease's behalf would sue for not doing an RCA when that's not what caused her death?

[DivyaJyothi-wuzz]

Sir pls do vedio on malaria transmission

[SagaciousSix]

Just so we're clear--is the cat okay???

[sevenseven]

Thought this woulda been a case of missed cauda equina lol

[shekinah]

Why does all these videos describe the type of apartment and who lived with them ?

[lizettewanzer]

So...what caused Zach's weakness?

[Darkwell]

The hospital has a whole department to prevent this mistake yet they still managed to fuck it up.

[eget]

Situation is very stupid but legal system love to slap us whenever something bad happens. So it is good idea to keep this in mind.

[joshb]

This is kinda hard. Pseudohyperkalemia is not an uncommon occurrence

[PluTV]

Bullshit. The laboratory was at fault. It was their responsibility to check if the blood samples were wrong/swapped. The doctor managed the patient well based on the lab result. The doctor probably had many patients other than them on night duty. It's not his responsibility to double check every lab result, it is the responsibility to whoever supervises the laboratory!


people complained of unnecessary laboratories/procedures but they don't know that we do it to prevent a possible malpractice lawsuit.