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Oculus Spirit [81061]
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Yo CharlestonTiger15...have you seen that "Dr Death" show?
Jan 14, 2022, 10:02 AM
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True story about Christopher Duntsch, some dude who somehow made it out of medical school, then started operating and killing people? Its kind of frightening really...because it was almost impossible to stop him due to legal technicalities--noone wanted to get sued.
He ended up going to jail over some weird law in Texas about harm to senior citizens.
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Re: Yo CharlestonTiger15...have you seen that "Dr Death" show?
Jan 14, 2022, 10:07 AM
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The podcast was really good, I watched a couple episodes of the show and it was a pretty faithful recreation.
The biggest failure in that situation was his training program graduating him, despite knowing he wasn’t ready. This is more common than you might think, it’s impossibly hard to fire residents these days, and incompetence just gets swept under the rug. Hospitals and practices also don’t want to feel like they’re torpedoing a career, so like you saw in that situation, bad doctors can bounce around until they flame out. Surgery is a hard job, being good at it requires talent, but more important are reps and practice, and his case numbers were way below what you need to get competent with it.
The job I have now, I got because a guy one year out of training got fired for harming patients and being a psychopath to work with. Some people just aren’t ready and can’t make it out in the real world. You can be incompetent or be a prick, but you can’t be both and expect to make it in this profession.
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Oculus Spirit [81061]
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Thats pretty scary.
Jan 14, 2022, 10:11 AM
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I thought it was easy to get canned if you started killing people and that the whole thing was pretty heavily policed. Apparently not.
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Re: Thats pretty scary.
Jan 14, 2022, 10:13 AM
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Complications happen to good and bad surgeons alike, it’s parsing out which ones shouldn’t have happened that’s the hard part.
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Oculus Spirit [81061]
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When you kill a couple a people a week, and maim a few
Jan 14, 2022, 1:56 PM
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those aren't just "complications".
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Re: Yo CharlestonTiger15...have you seen that "Dr Death" show?
Jan 14, 2022, 10:19 AM
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So, to be safe, you're saying to make sure to only use a surgeon who is a prick?
Kidding. I couldn't listen to the Dr. Death podcast. If I did I'd never go back to the doctor.
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Re: Yo CharlestonTiger15...have you seen that "Dr Death" show?
Jan 14, 2022, 10:22 AM
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Well, preferably neither. The good ones are good cutters and good with patients. That being said, you want a surgeon who is confident and cocksure. It’s audacious what we do, you want someone who knows they know how to get it done.
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Yeah, but
Jan 14, 2022, 12:56 PM
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whatever - it's not like it is life or death . . . . geeeezzzzzzz . . . .
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I think they should publish their statistics.
Jan 14, 2022, 1:56 PM
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Maybe they already do, but if I was getting some kinda back surgery (or any surgery I guess), I'd want to know how many people he killed or maimed in the last say, 6 months.
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