November 21, 2009
Published: 1 Jul 09 11:06 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/20392/20090701/
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Health authorities in Sweden have decided not to punish two doctors who mistakenly stitched a 65-year-old patient’s bladder to his large intestine.
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How can this happen, and the surgeon 'gets off'
I cannot believe some of the antics I read about here in Sweden....is that really acceptable??
Why should a doctor be accountable for a little mistake when a computer nerd can screw up a line of code and cause customers an inconvinience and companies large sums of money and not even get a slap on the wrist.
Remember this is Sweden and we belive in Jantelägen (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jante_Law if you don't know what it is). By making a doctor accountable for his mistakes and expecting perfection from everything they do, then we are elevating the doctors role and importantce in society and implicitly saying that they are better than the rest of us.
Get real, this is Sweden!
If it was your operation they screwed up would you still feel the same?
This has got nothing to do with socialised health care and all about societies attitudes, expectations and accountability
If the US offered universal free health care and doctor made mistakes, those doctors would be still sued out of existance.
I always find it funny how both Swedes and Americans use each other country as an example of "what will happen if ..."
Both countries are polar opposites in many areas. Sweden will never become like the US as it moves to the right and the US will never become like Sweden with a left swing.
If only Sweden would wake up and realize that it actually could be the way it pretends to be.
My question to anyone who can answer is 'what exactly were those doctors doing that did get punished/suffered some sort of penalty' under the existing system ... since it seems that many fairly extreme cases are happening regularly with no apparent consequences for the medical practitioners concerned ...
But accordingly I say... Is a Doctor getting paid salary from tax payers money?
Well why don't you think he is paying tax for you instead from his little salary(comparativey less with other countries).
Doctor works hard in his life and studies. and finally becomes a professional. It's simplw to pick garbage. With less responsibility. You just pick garbage and home.
Always blaming some professional has become a fashion in this society.
Once one doctor said... well I would be happy to stop my profession. If a doctor stops work then to make someone doctor is not easy. He can pick garbage easily and pay tax. But garbage picker cannot become a doctor so easily.
Facing something which we are not in life is something not easy. I regret if we both said the same thing... if you mentioned opposite then I do not regret it.
If it works... then why would people compare to each other...
Why would someone buy expensive cars, clothes etc?
Why would someone go to a beauty parlour?
this guidelines. Everything cannot be equal. If everything is equal then why would there be courts? why we would behave in different manner.
We have to appreciate if someone did a good job. Otherwise the society would get worse. See the laws have changed already... no longer like before... 9 to 10 years extended 18 years and life imprisonment. The world is slowly adjusting equally.
One day this nebero will destroy all of us and we will be left with nothing.
and yet we get taxed to pay these peoples way through life, and i dont even make but 800 dollars a month.