Re:Heart surgeons refuse difficult operations to avoid poor ...
by Retric on Sunday April 22, 2018 @08:49AM
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People die in surgery all the time, it's not nearly as big a deal for the surgeon as you're suggesting. ~5% chance of death within 30 days per major hart surgery means the average surgeon is losing several people in an average year.
Re:Heart surgeons refuse difficult operations to avoid poor ...
by smnrchrds on Sunday April 22, 2018 @03:04AM
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I am pretty sure that the parent was referring to the fact that this article is about heart surgeries. Bad heart is used in the same manner as a bad knee or a bad tooth. It refers to the patient not the doctor.
But aside from that, I completely disagree with your comment. The approach you are defending, even if legal, is completely unethical and immoral. It should be something we chastise, not condone.
Re:Heart surgeons refuse difficult operations to avoid poor ...
by mjfl on Sunday April 22, 2018 @03:34AM
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Well I think you're an idiot. There's only one viable "approach", determined by the laws of probability I described above. You can try to shame people into doing actions that would ultimately get them fired and sued, but you're only going to look like a self-righteous asshole and nothing will happen.
Re:Heart surgeons refuse difficult operations to avoid poor ...
by jlebar on Sunday April 22, 2018 @04:19AM
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Hey, this is a little too ad hom...
Yeah, if you were given one operation where the patient has a 100% chance of dying without it, but 80% of you killing them if you operate + 20% chance of them living after, maybe you'd do this once and get lucky. But try doing this twice, you have a a 96% chance of killing a patient, three times makes a 99.2% chance of killing at least a single patient. This probability quickly approaches 100%. If you kill a patient you get dragged into court, branded as a murderer by the opposing lawyer, and your career which you have spent your youth, your 20s and a half a million dollars training for is down the drain. Taking risky cases, if that's not your niche, is is guaranteed to have you out of a job and in debt from legal fees.
To suggest that "bad hearts" are involved in this necessary calculation, is incredibly naive.