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>it's not necessarily an offense that demands termination. Someone murdered someone near my workplace. This surgeon branding his initials on someone's liver is

• saiya-jin 9y ago
  Reality is, tons of doctors have all kinds of issues (my fiancee is a doctor in one of the biggest hospital in Switzerland). As mentioned - substance abuse, tremendous pressures at work and massive overtimes (suicides aren't that rare, some just quit profession or downgrade to become a nurse). Ever thought that when you are admitted, doctor will quickly check youtube to look FOR THE FIRST TIME how to perform some minor (or not) procedure? Ever thought that patients would die or get seriously, permanently injured just because somebody forgot to do some checks? You thought that most senior surgeons are just workoholic egomaniacs, dependant on various legal or illegal substances that healthy person shuldn't touch, ever? And this is Switzerland. In ideal world, you're completely right. In real world out there, where ALL OF US make mistakes all the time, including doctors, this is really 'meh' category that I wouldn't mind at all on me, as long as doctor's performance is consistently solid. Maybe slap on the wrist in form of demotion / ban of practice for a year or two. Put a mandatory psychological treatment for true reason of this behaviour (we're society after all and should help each other, not banish them to hell for any mistake). Otherwise, if your would apply super high standards consistently across all staff, you would see plenty of people dying due to no staff in hospitals. Sad but real.