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1. UK Paediatricians Challenged to Debate.
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health challenged to public debate on reliability of medical evidence in legal proceedings. RCPCH members mislead the public and financially benefit from alleging child abuse. By John Hemming MP
2. Family Destroyer Dr David Southall Struck Off.
Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy/FII fan Dr Evan Harris MP (Liberal Democrat, Oxford and Abingdon) outed by One Click. Dr David Southall found guilty of serious professional misconduct and struck off medical register. Southall's deep-seated attitudinal problems revealed. From BBC NEWS
3. Medical Profession Incompetent And Unethical.
Joint medical incompetence study by Harvard Medical School, Yale University School of Public Health and University of Melbourne Center for Medical Research published today in Annals of Internal Medicine. Focus of current medical practice geared toward commercial profitability. Patient safety and best interests sacrificed for greater profits. By Vera Hassner Sharav, AHRP
4. Bush Resumes Open-Air Bio Weapons Testing?
Pentagon appears poised to resume open-air testing of biological and chemical weapons. Pentagon gearing up to fight and 'win' biological warfare pursuant to two Bush national strategy directives adopted in 2002 without public knowledge and review. By Sherwood Ross, SCOOP! Independent News, New Zealand
5. Children And Elderly Abused By Medical Profession.
Drug manufacturers ruthlessly targeting children and elderly as easy markets for dumping their most hazardous, incapacitating, life-shortening toxic drugs which should never have been approved for marketing. See Wall Street Journal and BBC Panorama. By Vera Hassner Sharav, AHRP
6. Australia - Gardasil Vaccine Adverse Reactions Roll In.
Melbourne school girls suffering dizzy spells and paralysis from Gardasil vaccination. Small randomised trials all sponsored by vaccine manufacturer. Australian Health Department refuses to provide details of seventeen girls per week experiencing adverse Gardasil vaccine reactions. By Melinda Tankard Reist and Dr Renate Klein, NEWS.com.au
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That the medical profession is incompetent is no news to the CFS/fibro community. Almost every patient can tell horror stories about doctors who ignored test results; in most cases that I hear about, the doctor initially diagnosed depression, and when they got a test result that proved there was a physical problem, they continued treating the patient for depression instead of whatever the test result pointed toward.
Hopefully with respected names like Harvard and Yale behind it, this study will cause the medical profession to sit up and take notice in ways that patients cannot effectuate.
If you go to the One Click site and read the entire article, it seems that although most doctors "know" they should report malpractice, very few do. I've seen that in my own situation: one doctor asked me "were they trying to kill you?" when I got a prescription that never should have been given to someone with my history of drug reactions and another doctor was horrified that I'd been left to endure Level 10 pain with no medication, yet, even after telling me that these doctors screwed up badly, no report of their malpractice was made to the Medical Board by the doctors who noted it.
If you check the website, none of my doctors has any history of complaints, even though I know that I made complaints about them. Why? The letter I received from the Medical Board makes it clear that they don't investigate complaints that did not result in loss of life or limb. That my health is permanently damaged is not enough; as low a quality of life as I have, I am still alive, and that's all that counts in deciding whether to investigate malpractice!
Unless and until doctors are called to account for the patients who will spend the rest of their days in bed because of uninformed advice to exercise, and patients who deteriorate due to years of treatment for the wrong condition, this incompetencewill simply continue.
It should, again, be noted that I told my new doctor in 2000 what my diagnosis was, and that it was received from a virologist. I provided him with a written report from a rheumatologist confirming that diagnosis a few months earlier. This was not a case where he accidentally made the wrong diagnosis. This is a case where he intentionally disregarded two expert diagnoses and substituted the one he wanted to make. There is absolutely no excuse for his misdiagnosis, because he was never asked to make a diagnosis -- he was told what the diagnosis was. The Medical Board did nothing to discipline him for his refusal to accept the advice of two specialists. And when two psych evaluators confirmed that his diagnosis of depression was wrong, he decided that he knew more than them, too.
2 comments:
Tsk tsk. All doctors should be boiled in oil.
Worthless, all of them.
The next time I go to one and tell him/her not to bother with a diagnosis because 2 MDs (who aren't treating me) told me what was wrong (and I want him to treat me blindly based on the former's opinion and not his own judgement), and he/she don't listen, well I am reporting them and starting a blog to bad mouth them.
That should show them who is the smart one, right?
I say it is time to go back to voodoo.
" 2 MDs (who aren't treating me)"
Who said they weren't treating me? Oh, yeah, that's right, as a doctor-wannabe you know everything without asking. You can't believe what those pesky patients tell you, so why bother asking them.
The initial diagnosis, a dozen years earlier in another city, came from a virologist who was researching CFS and knew exactly what it looks like. He treated me until I was forced to move to the far end of the state.
The confirmation of the diagnosis was also from a specialist who was expected to treat me until I got better, but my insurance stopped covering his medical group. His diagnosis was given to the new doctor in writing, so it wasn't something I might have misrepresented.
I was under the impression that generalists are supposed to defer to specialists in diagnosing complex conditions. And especially when the generalist later proves himself totally ignorant of what he should have been looking for with a CFS diagnosis. There are innumerable neurological and immunological tests that would show something wrong, but you don't get abnormal results on tests you don't order. And this guy would not even order the tests that CFIDS.org recommended (again, given to him in writing to be sure it was correctly communicated).
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