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Originally Posted by RL Gumm
Can anyone give a logical explanation as to why the Bush Administration went to such great lengths in terms of military lives lost (4000+) and innocent citizens killed nearly 1,000,000), to lie us into a war over approximately 3,000 fatalities on 9/11, but shows absolutely no concern that we are losing between 80,000 and 100,000 people EVERY YEAR from MEDICAL MISTAKES?
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Unless you know of a chain of Hospitals that are all manned by Jesus, I think you'll have to accept that they'll make mistakes. If you're naive enough to walk into a hospital thinking every doctor can cure everything, then I can see where you'd be appalled by medical mistakes. I, on the other hand, know and accept that when I walk into a Hospital (or crawl, or am wheeled in as the case may be!), it's because I've done everything I know to do, and now I'm hoping (not demanding or even expecting) that someone in there can do a better job than I did at fixing whatever's wrong. Sometimes, they can't help. Sometimes there's more than one way to
try to help, but no rule book will tell them which way is certain to work. They're humans who are trained to troubleshoot the human body. Nothing more. The
study of Medicine is a science. The
application of medicine is a craft. Even the finest craftsmen screw up.
Compare your 80,000-100,000 mistakes per year to the number of lives saved each year; then number of potentially fatal diseases caught in time; the number of fatal wounds repaired successfully; the number of preventative practices that saved lives without ever being counted. Your numbers are meaningless without comparison.
Hell, McDonald's loses almost NO patients EVER. Compared to 80,000 they look pretty good. But then compare their dead patients to the number of lives they saved, and even an idiot can see you're still safer at the Hospital than the drive-thru. Quit trying to make medical mistakes look like butchery.