Energyplay, reading that is like reading New Zealand's medical system. It's a fluke we don't have rampant Sars here.
Doctors go with the most probable instead of confirming something is not meningitis, cancer, sars etc, resulting in many unnecessary deaths. One of the medical guild's favourite comments is to assert, on review of what went wrong and who was at fault, that even if the problem had been correctly handled, there is no evidence that the person would have fared any better.
Which raises several points. Absence of evidence is not evidence that something is untrue. Even if it's true that the outcome wouldn't have been different, so what? I can misdiagnose things, operate on the wrong leg, switch the oxygen tube onto the ether, lose biopsy samples, and generally create mayhem with NO medical training.
There are heaps of mistakes here. One of the absurd was setting people on fire, by swabbing them with alcohol before using spark discharge machines to cauterize wounds or something. They wondered why their patients started going the wrong colour and they started getting hot themselves. They didn't do it just once either!
If I made as many mistakes as the medical industry does, I'd have been fired and sued! They bury their mistakes and have 'medical misadventure' guild protection. They are usually in a big hurry, charging monopoly rents [they keep the supply of doctors low to keep prices up and don't allow low cost specialists to do mass production work] and taking short-cuts.
Deregulation and open-market competition would raise quality control to supermarket standards.
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