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In case this sounds like a boring administrative/red tape thing: > Some of Erlanger’s residents were so unskilled that the hospital’s own doctors said in secre
by captainbland 3y ago
In case this sounds like a boring administrative/red tape thing:
> Some of Erlanger’s residents were so unskilled that the hospital’s own doctors said in secretly recorded conversations that they were concerned about leaving them alone in operating rooms. One said he was “moderately scared” of the hospital’s fourth-year residents, and called two others “terrifying.” Another surgeon said he trusted only about one-third of a recent crop of trainees.
> “Resident 3 is scarier,” Dr. Dirk Kiner, an Erlanger orthopedist, told a colleague, according to the lawsuit. “He’s got this spasmodic index finger. You know, he makes an incision, and it’s just, oh my God, stop.”
Talk about perverse incentives. These hospitals are putting patients at risk through double booked surgeons and charging through the nose for it. It's absolutely staggering.
- bicx 3y agoI had an emergency appendectomy at Erlanger in Chattanooga, and whoever sutured me back up accidentally punctured my intestine, didn’t realize it, and sent me home. Ended up in serious condition. I attempted to at least have the hospital cover the bill, but they wouldn’t. So I (and mostly my insurance company) paid thousands for their mistake. Laws heavily protect physicians in this respect, and it makes sense to a degree, but this seemed like an elementary error. From the conversations I had at the time with my surgeon, his lack of communication about first-hand knowledge of what went wrong had me wondering if he did the surgery at all. Reading this article, it sounds quite possible that for such a routine surgery, he may have handed it off. Or at least left a resident to sew things back up. Based on the quotes in this article, it sounds like residents can be pretty shit at their jobs.