#malpractice

[longreads]

The new issue of The Atavist Magazine, by Rae Nudson, is about an ob-gyn in Virginia who took advantage of his patients and performed unnecessary surgeries for decades.

She requested her medical records and was stunned to find discrepancies with what Perwaiz had said to her during appointments. Most glaringly, she didn’t see any mention of precancerous cells on her cervix; the tests Perwaiz performed on her had come back normal. “If I was normal,” Debra said, “why did I have a surgery?”

Read the excerpt, “A Medical Nightmare,” on Longreads.

#longreads #longform #medicine #doctors #malpractice #journalism #reporting #women #health

[staringabyss]

babe wake up new uquiz about malpractice

#reanimator #hannibal #little shop of horrors #repo the genetic opera #frankenstein #uquiz #malpractice #i loveeeee making tags

[miralines]

Oh by the way fun fact about Marius

There’s a distinction between psychology and psychiatry

the phrasing here implies that marius wasn’t just doing therapy without a license; he was also (or maybe just) prescribing medication

#the mechanisms #the mechs #marius von raum #I feel like this needs some sort of warning #uh #malpractice #? #ask to tag #I feel like the distinction is common knowledge but I’ve never heard anyone talk about the psychiatry #just the bad therapy #psychiatric abuse #I feel like this probably qualifies

[9ofspades]

okay look we know Seward is being terrible to his patients and his actions are bad

but when he muses about how he wishes he could justify keeping on going and seeing how far Renfield takes it (keeping in mind the Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly song hadn’t been written yet, and also horses don’t really eat goats)… lambasting him for that feels kinda like it’s getting into thoughtcrime territory. Like, yeah, his assumptions are INCREDIBLY ableist and he’s clearly thinking of Renfield as an experiment rather than a human patient under his charge. He deserves all the hate for that. But SPECIFICALLY the thought of “man, I wish I could justify doing this… for science…” isn’t really scorn-worthy? Like. Wishing there was some way he could do the awful thing — that’s a thoughtcrime; he didn’t actually do the awful thing. He hasn’t even tried to do the awful thing. They’re all right that his ableism and actual treatment of patients mean he shouldn’t be in charge of any kind of hospital or asylum (at least by modern standards); but wishing he could do [a war crime/a human rights violation/a animal abuse] for science — that doesn’t mean anything; that’s just a thought.

#Dracula #dracula daily #seward #malpractice #We don’t prosecute thoughtcrime here sir

[sillycourtjester]

I can tell if someone is autistic faster than a professional allistic doctor, but somehow i'm the one committing malpractice

#satire #half joking #autism #actually autism #actually autistic #autism things #autistic #autistic things #allistics #malpractice

[silverbridge-harbor]

Doctor: "what's your blood type?"

Me: "O-positive"

Doctor: "are you sure?"

Me: "oh, positive"

Doctor: "okay cool"

They then use my blood in a transfusion and the patient instantly explodes into a puddle of gore because I am actually a Groot type alien whose every phrase just coincidentally sounds like "oh positive" and I was actually warning him that my blood type is really ξβ-7+

#stupid thoughts #196 #blood type #blood #transfusions #groot #malpractice

[selfhelpforghosts]

You deserve to have your medical concerns taken seriously.

This shouldn't be a controversial statement, but it's one that a lot of people (particularly AFAB people), including myself, have struggled with. Medical gaslighting is a real thing, as is discrimination based on any number of unrelated things that the doctor might see on your chart before they've even met you.

If you're at an appointment and don't feel that you're being taken seriously or listened to, you are not in the wrong for standing up for yourself. You are not being rude or unreasonable for asking that the medical professional treats you properly. Stand your ground and politely assert how you feel about the subject, and ask them to document their refusal in your chart if they refuse to treat or test you for anything. And if you feel REALLY disrespected, you are well within your rights to politely but firmly tell them that you are not willing to put up with being treated that way and they either need to do better or find someone else to help you. If they refuse, you can just leave. You don't have to stay until the end of an appointment if it's wholly unproductive, and I feel like a lot of people don't realize that. If you're concerned about having to check out or anything like you do at some offices, stop by the desk on your way out and explain - "I decided to end my appointment early because I felt that Dr. So-and-so was not treating me respectfully or working with me in any sort of productive way. Is there anything you need from me before I go?"

I know it can be scary to do this sort of thing. We're so often taught to avoid making waves and to just put up with discomfort in order to save the other person the trouble, but that's not fair to us. Our feelings matter, too. YOUR feelings matter. You're allowed to advocate for yourself.

And if you ever need support from someone, know that I have your back. I'm happy to answer any questions or tell personal stories about this sort of thing if anyone would like! Now go to your appointments and get yourself the treatment you deserve. I believe in you!

#mod pachimari #mental health #physical health #healthcare #medical gaslighting #medical discrimination #malpractice #self-advocating #chronically ill #chronic illness #spoonies #pots syndrome #hypermobile eds #doctors #recovery

[boobachu]

THEY'VE BEEN LITERALLY DUMPING HANDICAPPED PATIENTS ON THE GOD DAMN SIDEWALK?!?!?

This is TYPICAL!?!?

"Paralyzed! People [who] can't walk! That are totally reliant on a wheelchair. Take 'em out, put 'em on a wheelchair, throw all their stuff on the street and take off."

Just how divorced can you be from your humanity that you just carry on? I would have quit on the spot. Salvaging my career wouldn't be worth casting away my soul. This is just... horrifying.

Medical professionals never cease to shock me at how little they care about anything but their paycheck. This is utterly atrocious.

#Disabled #Handicapped #Abuse #Elderly #Death #Malpractice #Louisville #Youtube

[dougielombax]

Kid Named Malpractice:

Shut up

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #my poor attempt at a joke #no context #house md #hugh laurie #kid named finger #kid named death of a joke #shitpost #this sounded funnier in my head #what #highbrow shitposting #medical malpractice #malpractice #chicanery #shenanigans #fuckery #breaking bad #fixing good #better call saul #tangentially #bravo vince #vrabo bince #dr house #shut up #medical drama #woman moment #medicine #surgery #and so on

[sophieinwonderland]

With the Theory of Structural Dissociation being talked about recently, I believe it should be known that the creator of the theory lost his license permanently in late 2019. He was found to be abusing his clients in a Dutch court case, going as far as breaking a wrist of one of his client's. He kept that same client in "stage 1" for 21 years and was extremely creepy towards her. The Stronghold System made a video about this in 2020 after he was still promoting TOSD.

Yes. Definitely.

Although, while this was really horrible, and I think it should make people re-evaluate these works in case his influence resulted harmful ideologies slipping into them, I do think it should be mention that Onno van der Hart a creator, not the creator. He's one of three psychiatrists who wrote The Haunted Self and created the theory.

Here is the video for anyone who is interested:

#syscourse #psychiatry #psychology #pro endo #pro endogenic #endogenic #plurality #plural #multiplicity #systems #system #plural system #endogenic system #sysblr #system stuff #abuse #tw abuse #medical malpractice #malpractice

[valoale]

Back at the hospital. It seems the infection is getting worse and the radiologist had read my CT scans sloppily and there’s free fluid in my abdomen and they don’t know why. They’re doing more tests to find out if my previous doctor misdiagnosed me because of the vague description of the scans

#this is what underpayment and rush and understaffing does to healthcare #malpractice #can’t stand how things are rn in my country #I’ve been living on and off the hospital for a year now and this bitch is tired #also I don’t know if my ulcer is bleeding or if there’s more #or if this is becoming a peritonitis #anyway I’m pissed #to put it mildly #and ofc they dismissed the fluid first as my endometriosis and didn’t question it further #and on top of that the radiologist didn’t even give a statement about my other organs like they only checked for the appendix #and didn’t even give a specific statement about it either #idk what the hell man #vee talks #cw: illness #cw: hospitals

[icarusxxrising]

The fact doctors can straight up not listen to patients and just send them home even when something is wrong, and still practice medicine even later when it's learned that there was something seriously wrong with the patient, is fucking abhorrent.

Doctors are people too and people make mistakes but there's a difference between making a simple mistake and telling your patient "It's just anxiety not a heart attack, no I'm not going to test you to see if I'm right or not, you just want drugs, just go home" is despicable.

#vent #medicine #medical #malpractice #medical malpractice

[jt1674]

#dr feelgood #malpractice #wilko johnson #lee brilleaux #going back home #the big figure #sparko

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Faith No More - Malpractice

#Faith No More #Angel Dust #Malpractice #Release date: #June 8th #1992 #Full-length #Genre: #Avant-garde/Alternative Rock/Metal #Themes: #Struggle #Indifference #Silliness #Humour #Society #USA

[mcatmemoranda]

Malpractice Insurance: What You Need to Know - PMC

#jobs #malpractice

[thefeistydragon]

Doctors really will find any way to blame anything they don't understand on patient behavior, rather than deflating their ego for 2 seconds and admitting they don't know something.

#chronic illness #medical neglect #malpractice #spoonie #for context I'm being released from the hospital with life threateningly high potassium and being told it must be my diet #considering the hospital has been in charge of my diet for the past 4 days I don't think it's the diet #and I'm being released without rechecking my blood to make sure it actually came down after treatment #so if i die from heart failure it's been nice knowing Y'all