Re:Man saves wife’s sight by 3D printing her brain tumor
by VikingCoder on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @03:28PM
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You're not going quite far enough -
Medical Practitioners and Medical Institutions should be required by law to document outcomes, provide information about disputed outcomes, and update the information on a periodic basis.
And tampering with the information should carry heavy punishment, including jail time for the practitioner and officers of the institution.
Actions like the recent cover-ups in the VA hospitals about wait times leading to deaths should be nearly impossible to hide from the public eye.
It's worse than that: It would be sued out of existence by those people who rank badly (ie, exactly those bad practitioners that need to have their asses kicked.)
In a related example: A friend wrote a book about first-hand experience in dealing with a nursing home for her aging parent. There were many instances of problems, but one in particular was that a doc had prescribed the wrong drug.
The publisher loved the book, and made the publication offer contingent on a number of changes. One of those changes: You can't implicate a person or his institution because of the liability. It doesn't matter how good your proof is, the jury system is so broken that the publisher just can't accept the risk.
Now just imagine if there were a searchable database of outcomes tied to individual practitioners or institutions.