Medical Maladies

New York Times today had an article saying holding doctors accountable for medical errors saying that as many as 98,000 people die every year just because they went into some hospital. So that mistakes made by doctors are killing 98,000 people every year and hospitals making hospitalization by itself is very risky enterprise. One of my favorite book is called Confessions of a Medical Heretic and in that book he explains that hospitals are like war zones and they are to be avoided at all cost. What today’s article speaks to is saying that instead of blaming the system, it’s time to make the doctors responsible for their own mistakes. It means that they have to get overburdened by insurance and legal claims and it doesn’t mean that they need to take responsibility for their own mistakes and be more aware and be less invasive and more preventive doctors who do realize that they are not healing people, that they are simply required to create the conditions for healing people and that the less medications, the less surgery and the less intrusiveness would be better. So that they stop making all these mistakes and killing innocent people who have no idea in what they’re getting into when they go into a hospital.