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I had 2 experiences recently where an acquaintance would’ve died, if not for called in favors to doctors who were personal friends. The doctors they went to wr
by thrav 7y ago
I had 2 experiences recently where an acquaintance would’ve died, if not for called in favors to doctors who were personal friends.
The doctors they went to wrote things off and sent them on their way multiple times, but they reached out to close friends for recommendations on second opinions because they still didn’t feel right. Doctor A tells Doctor B to do him a favor and take a closer look, and lo and behold, emergency surgery saved their life.
We’re obviously talking upper middle class people with great insurance. The system is very broken.
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- grandinj 7y agoThat's actually just a thing called "fallibility". We live in an age where so much stuff is so readily fixable we don't remember how common this used to be. We keep eliminating sources of error, but there will always be a long tail of small-scale mistakes with large-scale consequences
- logiclogic 7y agoLet's just agree it is broken and do nothing about it. We have connections after all and only the other people will suffer so who really cares.