How many of us know what, 'defensive medicine' is and how it can impact your health.
Friday, 22 Apr 2022, 14:51
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How many have heard this term before ?
How many of us know what it means ?
Defensive medicine is relevant to us all. Yesterday l read the article which explained the difficulties that one person had, to be listened to by health professionals and dentists. Sadly due to the practice of defensive medicine, treatment became delayed which has had a profound affect on their health .
How many can associate with the trial of not being listened to and to be taken seriously ?
How many times have you come away from your consultation and given up due to the response of the health practitioner after having many tests giving a negative result but yet symptoms persist ?
Do you know your own body ? Can a Dr know your body from just seeing you for less then minutes?, Are we seen as all being cloned and not individuals? Time consuming perhaps ?
Having read the article and others sadly it appears the attitude and response to their plight is not uncommon but appears to be the, 'norm'. ,The blame game'.
How did we get to this situation ?
Can it be that the health profession are so fearful of the public or is it the ego and fear of being wrong ?
Are we the public at fault for relying on the health service and worshipping it as an all encompassing hero and when not lived up to the expectation we want MONEY ! Will that bring back the quality of life ? Is it the purpose of litigation to humiliate or to prove a point that the patient was right and knew their own body?
How many conditions could be prevented and the quality of lives returned, if patients were listened to
and, health professionals could set aside their fear of litigation?
Surely defensive medicine is costly and a false economy , it is just blighting the health of the nation and the health service because, the fear of 'what if ' is to great.
How many of us know what, 'defensive medicine' is and how it can impact your health.
How many have heard this term before ?
How many of us know what it means ?
Defensive medicine is relevant to us all. Yesterday l read the article which explained the difficulties that one person had, to be listened to by health professionals and dentists. Sadly due to the practice of defensive medicine, treatment became delayed which has had a profound affect on their health .
Dentists would not treat my toothache – now my health has been wrecked for ever | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian
How many can associate with the trial of not being listened to and to be taken seriously ?
How many times have you come away from your consultation and given up due to the response of the health practitioner after having many tests giving a negative result but yet symptoms persist ?
Do you know your own body ? Can a Dr know your body from just seeing you for less then minutes?, Are we seen as all being cloned and not individuals? Time consuming perhaps ?
Having read the article and others sadly it appears the attitude and response to their plight is not uncommon but appears to be the, 'norm'. ,The blame game'.
How did we get to this situation ?
Can it be that the health profession are so fearful of the public or is it the ego and fear of being wrong ?
Are we the public at fault for relying on the health service and worshipping it as an all encompassing hero and when not lived up to the expectation we want MONEY ! Will that bring back the quality of life ? Is it the purpose of litigation to humiliate or to prove a point that the patient was right and knew their own body?
Defensive medicine: It is time to finally slow down an epidemic - PMC (nih.gov)
Who creates such fear and why?
How many conditions could be prevented and the quality of lives returned, if patients were listened to
and, health professionals could set aside their fear of litigation?
Surely defensive medicine is costly and a false economy , it is just blighting the health of the nation and the health service because, the fear of 'what if ' is to great.
https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/41079/html/