Never 27 Law Watch

[Ronald Gross]

Hey Tom,

I Googled this mysterious Professor Z that you seem to admire so much
and couldn't find a damn thing about him.  So I looked at his book on
the only place I could find it on line - Amazon.com.  I read page 1 and
I have to ask the question....Is the rest of the book the same
fictitious garbage as page one is?  
Wait!  I get it - we have now moved into the realm of evidence based
fiction.  Great.  Just great.

Ron


>>> "Thomas Anthony Horan" <thoran at sarah.br> 3/2/2007 12:45 PM >>>
Dear Ryan,

you are absolutely correct and Ron provides no evidence to support his
contrary minded view.
Recently a well known Surgeon  from new York has published an account
of how poorly the current accountability situation plays out in a
hospital. "Behind the Green Door" professor Z worth the read.

Tom

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> Ryan,
> 
> It is quite clear that you have never been involved with an
investigation of a reportable "adverse event".  And I am sorry to say
that it is just as clear that you fail to give the average "consumer"
(formerly known as a patient) the credit that he/she is due when you
assume that these folks are accepting their PMD's golf partner as their
physician.
> 
> I hope you return to this list with your revised comments 2 or 3
years after you have entered the real world as a practicing physician. 
Even better, as a solo practitioner who hangs out a shingle in a town
where there are 16 other surgeons, you don't have time to play golf, and
your practice grows solely on your ability to practice medicine or
surgery and care for your patients the way they want to be cared for -
as if each and every one of them were the most important person in your
world getting the best results possible.
> 
> Good luck,
> Ron
> 
> >>> Ryan Shanahan <rs339 at georgetown.edu> 3/1/2007 6:10 PM >>>
> With considerable respect to Drs. Mattox and Gross I would question
whether anyone on this list or the hospitals they work for create enough
report-able events to make this law an administrative hassle.  If it is
the case than the reporting requirements should be the least worry. 
(granted the last report-able event "any adverse event ... that causes
death or serious disability" is uncomfortably vague)
> 
> For all the problems that the consumerization of medicine has and
will continue to create it should allow people to compare and choose a
doctor based on some objective criteria.  At least something more
objective than a list in a phone book or their primary care providers
golf partner.  Yet there has been considerable reluctance to provide
practice quality data like this to the public.  Usually adverse events
like the ones mentioned in this law are buried in an internal QC review
with admonitions to do better in the future and very little tangible
change.  Every so often when an error occurs a patient sues but that is
the exception rather than the rule. (Keepnews D, Mitchell P. (2003,
September 30). Health systems' accountability for patient safety. Online
Journal of Issues in Nursing 8(3):2).  More often patients sue when no
error has been committed.
> 
> Legislation like this is the least efficient way to make the required
changes in openness and accountability for mistakes but if the
profession is unwilling to make the changes internally then external
prodding is the only way left.
> 
> Ryan Shanahan M'09
> 
> 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: KMATTOX at aol.com 
> Date: Thursday, March 1, 2007 11:35 am
> Subject: Re: Never 27 Law Watch
> 
> > Ron:   I think that the majority of the persons on this list  
> > (including 
> > international members) are in total agreement wi
th  you.   There 
> > are a few on this 
> > list that are supportive of the  Regulatory Industrial Complex and

> > the clip 
> > board carrying job assurance  programs. 
> > 
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