Table Top Test - CALL to you "an on call medical supervisor"

[Pret Bjorn]

I can't tell if I'm missing the joke, or if this is a thoughtless non
sequitur.

If questioning major ethical lapses is throwing stones, then I guess we all
ought to move out of our glass houses or accept the decay of our professions
-- and our humanity.

I'm glad for Dr. Mattox and proud of his command of the local rules;
nonetheless, I consider it an embarrassment that nobody ahead of him
deferred their self-serving medicolegal paranoia in favor of treating a
woman's agony and Googling the law later.  If nothing else, their response
was entirely too linear: where I work I'm confident that our staff would set
about treating the patient properly, THEN started calling around to make
sure the forms were all filled out right.

This case was a no-brainer from the start.  It got complicated when trained
and oath-sworn doctors used rules outside of their understanding or command
(Ken accepted) to avoid responsibility for response.  

It's all just sad.

Pret



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Easy to throw stones when it isn't your greenhouse, isn't it?