A World of Hurt: How Medical Malpractice Fails Everyone

A World of Hurt: How Medical Malpractice Fails Everyone examines the devastating impact of medical malpractice on patients, doctors, and society. The film presents three powerful stories from the perspectives of patients and doctors who have been directly affected by medical malpractice. Through these personal accounts, viewers gain insight into the emotional and financial toll that medical errors and their associated lawsuits can take on individuals and families. Additionally, the film features interviews with medical experts who discuss the root causes of medical malpractice and propose solutions for reforming the malpractice system for the future.
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[@orlandparkcounselors7036]

This points to another crisis folded into the story - and yet not again directly addressed. The psychological needs of high risk high performance work. First responders, medical and physicians are the highest suicide rates. Yet those professionals are culturally dissuade from getting any counseling care.

[@arttoegemann]

That counseling would be by colleagues. Can a social worker turn to another social worker for help? Or would it be an echo chamber? Does getting medical help damage credibility? This is a professional risk, the notorious stigma. The insurer should provide the assistance needed for all concerned.

[@lynnjr457]

Mental Health Stigma is a serious issue in the U.S. Whether it is for a Medical Professional, a Veteran, a Police Officer, etc.. For many, the moment you cross the threshold of a Mental Health Professional's doorstep, you are branded as "broken", a brand that is there for life. We have to remove the mindset that brands these people and we need to remove the "consequences" of walking through that door (loss of job, loss of rights, loss of respect) or they will never proactively walk into a Mental Health Professional's office for help.

[@lynnjr457]

@@arttoegemann I see your point, but I doubt anyone that is actually using Mental Health Services is going to a peer where they work due to the stigma that would follow them for being seen as needing counseling services. Also, Good counselors don't foster echo chambers, they listen, and act as a sounding board for you.

[@arttoegemann]

@@lynnjr457 I meant to describe a social worker who already knew what a therapist would say.

[@jenniferdiaz2293]

SELAH'S family. Just wow. 😢❤

[@theMDMentor]

I LOVED this film, which so accurately reflects its title. From narration by Gita Pensa, M.D. (an expert in litigation stress in an informal teaching session with medical trainees), to poignant stories by two surviving patient families, who openly shared their experience, perceptions and feelings, to a deposition by defendant Dr. Matt Seaman who completed suicide after a licensure action based on a frivolous case, to Megan Ranney, a fellow emergency physician and medical school dean, to several experienced litigators, this story compassionately and completely unfolds the complexities in a way that is understandable to anyone. The current system of medical malpractice adjudication indeed fails us all. Kudos to Mark Brady, Viknesh Kasthuri and Alex Homer on this Epic piece which should be viewed and understood by all for the travesty this is.

[@jackofalltrades3378]

You doctors are glorified mechanics with ego problems. Mechanics work on peoples cars, but they actually care because if they screw up and you die, they get in BIG trouble. Doctors, on the other hand, have their liability insurance and their corrupt industry that turns a blind eye to neglect and malpractice, so doctors persistently try to get away with wrongdoings because they know they can. If someone accidentally runs over your kid with a car and does nothing to help, you can put them in prison, but if a doctor leaves you to suffer and starve and does nothing to fix it when you tell them they've made a mistake, they walk free and everyone deifies them... That must change. Doctors need to be living in fear of the mob since they don't live in fear of lawsuits.

[@arttoegemann]

Doctors pay insurance premiums but insurers dodge even the best of claims. Did the Doctor who committed suicide have mental health support?

[@GunFunZS]

I don't know. He was a good friend. I was supposed to hang out the next weekend. I could tell he was distressed.

[@incognito595]

You would fall off your chair if I told you what they did to me. It is So Horrific. I was told that juries won't make a judgement against a "doctor." I WILL NEVER BE ANYTHING LIKE I USED TO BE. THE SUFFERING IS UNSPEAKABLE. I CAN TELL YOU THAT THEY DESERVE TO BE SUED. I WORRY EVERY DAY THAT I WON'T SURVIVE THIS.

[@KiwikimNZ]

I’m so sorry ❤

[@ChrisGroggyCreaser]

In britain/the UK,the NHS is garbage!!... :(

[@arttoegemann]

Participants should familiarize themselves with the mindset of American law, adversarial process; requiring good faith.

[@KiwikimNZ]

Suing is only causing more anguish for both family and Dr. what happened to a process of apology, accountability and medication. Where both parties can come together one on one, talk this out, express feelings of anger, sadness, grief, confusion… or apology and accountability. The Drs will learn more from this, so will the families. I’m a nurse and mistakes unfortunately happen. There is however a difference between well meaning drs or nurses who genuinely make mistakes under stressful situations and health professionals that are incompetent. The body is a very very complex system and when there can be so many variables, lack of time, stress, poor medical history etc, things happen. I have also been a patient who has been on the side of malpractice after a Dr missed 3 vertebral fractures and herniations on my neck after an accident, even though she ordered imaging! Sent me home. It was 9 weeks until they re scanned and found the fractures. They were found in the initial admission but the Dr simply didn’t read my report. 10 years later I’m in chronic pain, can’t work, have no quality of life…. I never complained …

[@WillCrabbe]

This should be brought out in the open I had no idea that Drs were treated so poorly. I regret leading my 2 children into becoming Drs. (They’ve never said anything to me about this). I’m so sad for the mistreatment of these Drs.

[@jackofalltrades3378]

Doctors don't deserve to be treated as well as they are. Don't have pity for someone who is weak-minded because they were enabled their entire lives and crammed their nose in books instead of working in the real world. All doctors should be obligated to get a real job for 3 years before working in medicine to make sure they understand what it means to be normal. Most doctors have antisocial personalities but hide it from the naive. Many have ego problems outright, while others have what we call "egomaniac with inferiority complex". It's the nurses who are the kindhearted and empathetic ones. Doctors need to be like the nurses.

[@wmd40]

if you make a major mistake at your job, it doesn't matter what that job is. you deserve to face accountability. the end. if you can't deal with accountability on the level of what physicians deal with, then don't become a physician. be an accountant or a chef. yes false accusations are terrible but frankly medical errors of all kinds outweigh that by so much it's disgusting to act like it makes patients rights less important.

[@christinakuczora4862]

Amen

[@Diashi1267]

The vast majority of medical malpractice claims are frivolous. Only a small minority of claims are settled in favor of the plaintiff, and even then it's only because it's a tragic situation and the lawyers are able to emotionally manipulate the jury to accept their fabrication that "someone made a mistake" as the truth so they get a big payout. Sometimes innocent people have tragic outcomes and there's nothing anyone could have done about it and there's no one to blame. Thinking there's always someone to blame is just a story you tell yourself to make yourself feel safer in this unpredictable world we live in

[@billsherman1565]

Do you accept that most malpractice claims are frivolous?

[@amethystflower8799]

I love your comment

[@wmd40]

@@Diashi1267 if a doctor messes up it's not looking for blame. it's looking to make a doctor or system have accountability because they lobbied decades ago to avoid all accountability. don't worry. they're allowed to literally disfigure, misdiagnose, and kill people. they just sometimes have to pay some fines and then they get to keep working! literally no other industry works like this. if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.