Medical Errors Documentary: Why Doctors Make Mistakes | Only Human

[@BartBVanBockstaele]

I have been the victim of something that "went wrong". People I know told me to sue the doctor for malpractice. I didn't want to, and I never will. There was no incompetence here, no intentional harm. I have to live with the consequences, but I look at what would have happened without treatment. The way I see it, is that it is not a choice between "being OK" and "being harmed". The choice is between being harmed by a situation and medicine giving us a potential way out. It is why we should only seek treatment when we need it, not when we want it. Medicine is not an entertainment service.

[@cynthiadavid5282]

Good video very real good to know that these things really happen on the operating table sad

[@RUBratt-VT]

I too have been a person on the down side of mistakes of medical care. I have never seen anyone to be perfect and what it serves to sue the people who were trying to make my life better. Lawsuits only serve to.make it harder for doctors to not be honest. I believe honesty is far more valuable then any amount of money.

[@BartBVanBockstaele]

@@RUBratt-VT I agree completely. I do not understand why so many people claim they are surprised by medical mistakes. What do they think doctors and nurses are? Infallible machines that don't need learning, practicing, sleeping, eating, earning a living and yes, making mistakes?

[@877swissmiss]

Very well said! I agree. But the medical system could be better, so doctors have more time for the patient, because the better a doctor knows his patient the better chances for a good treatment. I think the rush they always are in these days are at least one source for errors. One that is not their fault. But in general I would say: Doctors are humans, not programmed devices, and humans are prone to making mistakes. Human bodies are complex systems and medical problems can be complex too! As long as a doctor is treating a patient based on best knowledge and will to cure, I wouldn‘t sue. If a mistake is made by neglect and indifference, I would sue to take not caring doctors out of their profession. I hope you‘re fine and the consequences are not limitating to you in daily life!

[@JustMe-andyou3]

Thank you for your oppinion.I wish more people would think like this. I would not want to have the responsibility of every mistake I make potentially killing a person so doctors have my full respect. But I wish doctors and nurses in hospitals didn't have to work so long hours, people make more mistakes when they are tired!

[@arianefr78]

Back in 1989 my twin boys were in London both having a medical circumcision and that evening I told the nurse that they were both in excruciating pain and could they have a top-up of morphine, she finally came by and then as she was about to inject the dose, she turned away and went to make a phone call, I was very irritated by this and told her to get off the phone and to give my boys their morphine. 15 minutes went by until the doctor himself turned up, he shouted at the nurse and said 'obviously I meant 1ml not 10ml, don't disturb me again for something so trivial'. Had the nurse not questioned the amount, my boys would have both died of a massif overdose of morphine. I think about that nurse all the time and wish I could thank her for being so vigilant...

[@helenaquin1797]

Good that the nurse didn't succumb to parental pressure also..

[@lynnthomas3720]

I'm sorry. But that's the way it is here in the states. Don't trust Dr's like I use to😢😢❤

[@elkee2938]

Omg❤

[@nelfi11]

Reason why she turns away and calls the doctor. As a nurse I wouldn’t just make a random phone call. It’s for a reason why she did it in front of the patient. But before talking to you, first discuss with the doctor

[@nelfi11]

@@helenaquin1797 exactly❤

[@Bettinasisrg]

My mother's boyfriend had a lung removed and the doctor nicked the other lung with his scalpel accidentally and that killed him. My grandma had an clot in her lung and she was specifically told on the chart not to be given a certain medication because it would interact badly with other meds she was already on, It was written in big bold letters that didn't see they gave her that medication and she got an embolism in her chest. It was INCREDIBLY painful and almost killed her. That's just me, one person, imagine all the other ones?

[@noongourfain]

Yes I know! This is why I am absolutely TERRIFIED of going to any doctor or dentist....I hear about these mistakes all the time and have suffered under the care of doctors and dentists who did not take my care as seriously as they should have. Medical mistakes and abuse is a growing problem and insurance companies play their part.

[@gabrielaab1651]

I also went through medical errors that left me with locomotor disability 50 % . But what's worse is that my general anesthesia was coordinated by an assistant doctor who was not accompanied by an anesthetist, he gave me overdoses of narcotics, opiates and multiple mixtures of drugs that were not compatible... all this they led me to cardiorespiratory arrest, then he gave me a high oxygen pressure and destroyed my lungs and my heart was seriously affected and the regulators of the body, vertigo and memory loss...etc . No lawyer wants to take over my case and the court rejected my complaint.

[@Witchfoot.Incorporated]

COMPLACENCY!!!! whenever I have had surgery, (USA) I literally write ‘only gallbladder’ on my abdomen in sharpie. with injections I always ask specifically what each one is & does. Those people get so overworked. I also ask how many procedures did u do before me, etc

[@christinecreasey2342]

It is a scary thing being in hospital, the er, operating room, and yes errors are made, but lives are also saved, nobody talks about that, yes we put our lives in the hands of doctors, nurses but I tell you, I’ve had countless surgeries, countless visits to the er, and I’m thankful to every doctor and nurse that has treated me

[@dalhousieDream]

People talk about surgical success all the time!

[@katesun2957]

That's wonderful for you. You are blessed.

[@elizabethmcleod246]

You’re lucky. That didn’t happen to me.

[@LuckyDog-v3h]

I'll never have another procedure but late in the day or evening in fact I will check and see how long that doctor has been on duty thank you for this show. Ultimately we have to protect ourselves. Because the poor doctors and nurses are pushed beyond comprehension.Hospitals are at fault for causing a cram on the students and the doctors. By over-scheduling.

[@celestialcircledance]

Provided its not a last minute emergency like a cardiac arrest . Wish there was a manual for avoiding medical pitfalls but we just have to do what we can and hope for the best god help us !

[@miyathebeeful]

My sister, wvho is a doctor, was told whilst studying, that you don't make the mistake twice especially when the patient dies

[@slworsham2821]

It breaks my heart to hear about all these cases of patient’s cases that could have been prevented. As a future physician, I believe that it is important to speak openly about medical errors. However, to learn from these mistakes, the health community needs to be able to hear about such cases first. Yet, I understand why doctors are so hesitant to share their errors. A medical license is the only thing that provides a livelihood for physicians. The amount of time put in to get a doctor’s degree (at least in the US) include an undergraduate education (4 years), medical school education (4 years), and residency (which varies, but an average of 4-5 years). On top of that, this education cost a lot of money, so a medical license is a cherished possession that most physicians work their entire lives for. Physicians are not intentionally trying to harm patients as that would go against the ethical duty of a doctor (to do no harm). But at the end of the day, physicians are only human, and as humans, we all make mistakes. As the video says, “there is no system that is foolproof; there will always be some level of mistake.” The only difference in physicians making mistakes is that there are dire consequences of harming another individual’s life. According to the WHO (2019) in high-income countries, like the US, “one in every 10 patients is harmed while receiving hospital care.” This number is surprisingly high. I agree that measures need to be taken to lower the causes of medical errors which can be accomplished through items like testing the competency of physicians and policy changes. Patient safety is the number one priority in the medical community. And if unfortunately, an error is made, physicians need to be transparent and honest with their patients about the mistake.

[@elizabethmcleod246]

You’re wrong. Doctors are gas lighting patients and not taking patients’ issues seriously.

[@xfifina]

Now in dental/medical field, we learn a whole seperate topic about errors and how to completely prevent them. For example, there is a checklist that needs to be done before and after each surgery to make sure no items are mistakenly left inside the patient.

[@maryannhope8276]

I learned that DRS and Hospitals DO make mistakes, 57 yrs.ago. This documentary answered all my questions. I'm lucky to be alive at 67. I was 10 and Drs. told my mother I wouldn't live past 14-16. This documentary has confirmed what I always thought. 3/16/23

[@Megadextrious]

So what happened in your case?

[@sunugalle]

In the aviation world every incident and accident is investigated by a national board that issues recommendations to mitigate the probability of répétition , that's why aviation is so safe. It takes some courage to go that way but it works....

[@sunugalle]

@@pennyfarthing1372 Aviation is very busy too, a little error can kill hundreds that's why reports are very detailed and published worldwide and recommendations are published and available worldwide. I see that medical staff tend to protect themselves and their colleagues. This is not possible in aviation.

[@viliabone1952]

This is why they have coroners.

[@izzle9181]

But people aren't like planes one body's reaction can be extremely different from another's and other factors make impossible to treat standardized as you might in aviation. Exactly what they talk about around 30:00 how drs are occasionally perceived like a car mechanic which is incorrect

[@sunugalle]

@@izzle9181 in aviation are many many factors that are not standardized, a whole lot.

[@dastrnad]

@@sunugallebut the law of physics never change.

[@Lucky-wt6fg]

We all make mistakes, not just doctors.

[@kascade9145]

The difference is Doctors bury their mistakes.

[@pennyfarthing1372]

@@kascade9145 they used to but it is not so prevalent this days. There is a practice of open disclosure which is used quite widely these days. Things are not perfect but definitely better than they used to be.

[@pepper419]

@@kascade9145 Most people do, or lie about them outright.

[@963ag]

But most mistakes don't cost lives or lead to serious disability.

[@daynalynnxo]

I certainly hope I’m not anyone mistake, medically.

[@LuckyDog-v3h]

If they made a mistake and then approached us that way it wouldn't be so bad it's when they try to cover it up or it's poo-pooed away and we were made to feel like outcasts.

[@davidwell686]

One huge problem we have in the USA is so many people refuse to keep track of their medical history and especially what drugs they are taking and why they are taking them. My friend is an ER doctor and is over whelmed with people coming into the ER with serious medical issues but they patient is clueless or just does not care and can't tell the doctors anything.

[@notjustanotherguy739]

As a nurse I’ve seen 6 types of causes of medical error: 1) Inexperienced staff being given too much responsibility too early. 2) Overworked staff being so tired they can’t think clearly. 3) Miscommunication between staff members. 4) An overwhelmingly stressed environment, especially true for the ER. 5) Language difficulties due to immigrants being employed before learning the language. 6) Simply lazy and incompetent staff.

[@FutureFocusTraders]

7) arrogance (?)

[@davidrele]

And of course the “errors” done on purpose.

[@pepper419]

What a heartbreaking story for the mother who probably feels guilty about the biscuit that was eaten by Richie. Even though it may not have been her fault either. I couldn't help shedding a tear at the end.

[@cherylemaybury9967]

My mother had been a nurse for several decades and she always said that Doctors bury their mistakes. She would always question any treatments prescribed for us, her family. 😊

[@lorimav]

I do that too and I am not a nurse. ALWAYS EXPECT MISTAKES. . My mother was seen by the GP on Tuesday and by Thursday she was hallucinating. I called the GP and asked if she had done a urine test for a UTI. She told me through her nurse that she wasn't complaining of any symptoms. Needless to say by the time I got the call back it was late too to take and test a sample to their office so I took her to the ER and they admitted her for 5 days and sent her to a rehab facility for 2 weeks because it so weakened her physically. At the rehab facility someone mistakenly quadrupled her statin prescription and I had to point that out. There were also drugs originally prescribed for occasional use ordered for everyday use and not "as per request" such as addictive sleeping pills. One does really have to be one's own medical researcher and really ask a lot of questions and yes, second guess everything. Luckily most mistakes don't have serious consequences. My mother actually responds better to d-mannose and cranberry than to the antibiotics given so keep an eye out for " functional medical" solutions and prevention.

[@LuckyDog-v3h]

The worst case I've heard about is when a doctor accidentally punctured a liver. And they didn't tell anybody and the person died and the nurse was told to keep quiet or her career was dead.

[@thrillingmoviescenes7842]

If they told nobody then how comes you know about it?or maybe you were that nurse

[@lauralulu100]

@@thrillingmoviescenes7842 possibly found the liver puncture during autopsy. Knowing the person recently had a surgical procedure done. Put the puzzle together 🤷‍♀️

[@ajlavanetwork5755]

Still going on!!

[@noongourfain]

Thank you for talking about this we all have to share our stories and figure out how to get the best care in our FOR PROFIT American medical system, where human life is getting cheaper and cheaper, just like other PRODUCTS as per the capitalist model Profit should not be a factor in human medical care. I'm not talking about drug development as much as doctors and hospitals. When profit is a factor in human care then human life becomes cheaper and cheaper in order to MAXIMIZE PROFIT. Economics 101 If you don't believe me ask yourself how valuable you are to society when you need a lifesaving operation? Why should they save my life? What $$ is in it for the system? What is my life worth to the system? It shouldn't be ALL about profit because every life is of the utmost value to the person who is living that life.

[@LuckyDog-v3h]

@@thrillingmoviescenes7842 the nurse told me. Is bother her for years and she told me about it she probably told many people about it.

[@angelacollins7695]

Yeah, I live in the United States and I am scared to have another surgery now. In 2017 I had surgery to replace discs c4 -c7. I wish I hadn't had it done now. The surgeon ended up only replacing 2 of the 3 and not only that but the 2 he did replace he didn't line up properly. He placed them too far to the right side of my neck. Now 6 years later the left side of my neck is collapsing on itself. My head tilts to the left permanently and I can not feel my upper body. The ability to use my arms and hands has diminished. Especially on my left side. He admits to the mistake but won't fix it. Conveniently my m.r.i blurred around the surgery site. Twice!! I have talked with other surgeons and i am told to return to him because he did the surgery. I have also talked with lawyers and told unless life altering problems or death occurs I can't sue for malpractice! I think not being able to fully function with my upper body is life altering 😢. At the moment I am working but I don't know for how much longer. The pain is extreme but I'm not even believed about that. Not even when I'm curled in a ball screaming and crying because shocks are shooting down from my neck to every part of my body and even touching my skin lightly will send me through the roof with pain. I suffer every day because of this so called surgeon. I can find none to help or believe me about my symptoms. I haven't even written all i deal with daily. Sometimes i cant even walk without support. Yet they won't even look!! Just an impartial m.r.i. or even an x-ray would show I'm not lying.i guess i forgot to mention that I live in New york state ugh! I'm Sorry everyone I know I just vented but I guess i had to get some of it out. I since have learned this particular Dr has a very bad reputation and a history of doing surgeries wrong. But guess what? He was the only Dr my insurance would allow me to use 😔 at the time.

[@jawmamasarah]

I have a C 6-C7 cervical spinal injury and cervical stenosis ,I have cubital tunnel in my elbow and loss of feeling in my fingers due to compression of the nerve. I already had neuropathy for years due to this,and I have used the new nerve stimulation devices that have helped some but I worry alot about eventually total disc degeneration and need for surgery as sometimes it is incapaciting and I worry about having surgery related to those nerves. I feel for you❤

[@moni1950412]

What a nightmare, I’m so sorry 😢

[@lauranowak3632]

As someone who was dismissed by my own family for having a cervical spine that was drifting to the right almost causing paralysis, I fully believe your situation. I also feel sorry that you’re in this predicament. I had my fusion, only to have C3-4 herniate, and narrow along with C7-T1. My thoracic spine is now twisting to the right, and L2-S1 are all herniated, L5-S1 is bulging, broken and the piece that’s broken is drifting around the spinal column. I’m not believed by my family, and my pain is so what? I’m 55, and have had about 22 surgeries so far. I hope that you find some relief soon as I understand the level of pain you’re experiencing, and I’m so very sorry 😞

[@Hephzibah_n_beulah]

Mistakes are bound to happen because doctors, nurses and anyone else in the medical profession are human. I’m a nurse and I worked with a doctor that gave a patient epi w/lidocaine before a small surgical procedure, after the patient specifically told her she was deathly allergic to lidocaine. The doctor was extremely busy, running behind, & a little distracted. The patient immediately reacted after the drug was administered (heart racing, shallow breathing, flushed skin). Fortunately with fast reaction the patient was stabilized and discharged safely but things could’ve easily gone wrong.

[@yukiefromoz2573]

I'm sure there are many genuine mistakes made but there are still those murderous 'doctors' who deliberately do the same thing time and time again. Those are the ones I'm more worried about.

[@judeflowers2813]

Thankfully there truly aren't many of those sorts of doctor (and nures) but it still is a concern.

[@elizabethmcleod246]

@@judeflowers2813 You’re wrong. Eight doctors in Vancouver, B.C. left me to die in agony from a severely pinched groin nerve.

[@lorimav]

​@@elizabethmcleod246You must mean "suffer in agony" because if you died in agony then how did you write this reply? But, yes I know that when it comes to medicine beware of frequent mistakes.

[@elizabethmcleod246]

@@lorimav I was on my death bed in late 2010. My son could see the life was draining out of me. I’m alive because fate and faith had me meet a registered nurse consultant and she procured my surgery. All the doctors in B.C., Canada committed fraud, I was a victim of poly pharmacy and I was neglected.

[@lorimav]

@@elizabethmcleod246 I lost my husband from bariatric weight loss surgery. I expected side effects and asked him not to do it. I never expected even such serious side effects as the inability to I absorb protein and the wasting away from malnutrition. Things worse than even I feared. Yet everyone believes that this is some kind of miracle surgery when the doctors themselves know that this always leads to some amount of deficiencies and that at the very least 20% of patients will face very serious problems. Don't get me started on the whole COVID mismanagement. Also, curious if you want to share about the particulars. Why were they prescribing you those drugs? Was it an improper diagnosis and did they not seem to care about your pain?

[@birdflipper]

Not to mention all the medical devices that are found to be faulty and medications that cause permanent disability or death in a large number of patients yet aren't taken off the market bc the medical manufacturers are too powerful.

[@TabithaBell-vf6kz]

Was the Philly hospital Nazareth? Cause they gave my father medication he was allergic to, despite it being on his medical bracelet, on his charts, and my mother specifically telling every person they saw. Because that hospital had done that to him previously as well. But really any hospital in Philly wouldn't surprise me due to the sheer volume of people they see. They're even more understaffed today.

[@shannoncarmody3805]

If you don't tell your mistakes. . how can you confirm To yourself that you've learned from it? How can you be ready To move On in practice of medicine if you don't Share your humanity of making mistakes ?

[@servicedogsrgrate8742]

I had eye surgery when I was 21 years old. It was done in a doctors office on a Saturday afternoon morning. I said to cry because it said it didn’t work. I heard the nurse say we need to take her to the hospital. He said I can fix it, I woke up the next morning unable to see anything with white light. I was told that I had all kinds of eye conditions. I couldn’t believe it was happening. I got my sleep app, but eventually started to lose it again the doctor with as far as to make my record disappear, and send me to his best friend , who went the opposite direction telling me I could see that I just needed to concentrate. I felt the DMV license he gave me a letter stating I was a police site. I almost died two days later when I didn’t see a crane across the road here we hit a person when I got home it was a letter from DMV stating that they knew I was blind, but they could go out with the doctor would lie

[@elizabethmcleod246]

Utterly appalling 😮

[@PopGoesTheology]

brilliant documentary. Thank you for sharing

[@ljooni]

I am ever so confused about "brand packaging" of medications. To me it is actively dangerous. I have THREE medications that I take at home that are in almost identical packages and my eyesight is not that good. The amount of mixups and "almost" situations has been way too high so I had to start changing the packages in some ways to make them easy to separate, like mess one up with black pen, put stickers on another, and the third one gets to be au naturelle. Can't even imagine how bad it is in the hospitals.

[@AnotherWittyUsername.]

All medications have their very own DIN (Drug Identification Number) that is unique to every medication, even Tylenol. After the doctor writes the order and it's logged into the system, that DIN will come up and it's really just a matter of matching it to the correct bottle, blister pack, inhaler, vial, whatever, before you administer it. Most large hospitals have a large machine that stores and dispenses the top 100-150 meds to nurses after they input their code, the DIN, the PT's info, etc and it has really helped cut down on med errors in the hospital.

[@judeflowers2813]

Alot of pharmacies could help with that if you ask.

[@naomimoran5564]

Get your pharmacy to pack your medicines in a Webster pack

[@ljooni]

@@naomimoran5564 Play so I've not replied to any of these helpful suggestions because I am assuming they are UK specific. But they just keep coming so, I don't live in UK. The same laws don't apply here. As far as I know, the pharmacy staff here is not allowed to "tamper" with the package in any way. If I had a personal nurse, they would be allowed to do that, but not the pharmacy. That is as far as I know though, so if anyone knows better about Finnish pharmacy practices, feel free to tell. I would love to have a way out of this.

[@angieskidney]

Would be a perfect video if the music was NOT louder than the people speaking. This video is good though and means a lot to me since I lost both my kidneys due to doctor negligence. But just like this video says, there where a lot of things that led up to that and not just one simple huge error.

[@mayatate2793]

Imagine how the rates of these mistakes would drop if hospitals hired more, paid more, offered and perhaps mandated extensive PTO, and took steps to improve their internal safety procedures. What if they dedicated money to their doctors and by extension their patients, repaired equipment, and have I mentioned paying people more?

[@killian1075]

Where is the extra money going to come from? Medical costs are already astronomical.

[@ninavandenabbeele9667]

I think having a system like in aviation would be a good way . And not to blame doctors but to make procedures more safe .

[@ranjapi693]

Well, considering the work load and stress doctors are subjected to it is no surprise! They are only humans! It is tragic if that ends in death.

[@catbriggs8362]

Most doctors could probably point and say, "I'd never let that guy operate on my child." How many medical professionals fail to turn in an accident-prone colleague? How many hospitals sanction the whistleblower who reports a dangerous employee? Hospitals overwork the nurses and doctors, causing more risk to patients. Some hospitals retrain or send medics with mental health/addiction problems to appropriate long-term therapy. They chose rehabilitation over punishment. This gives the medical staff permission to be human and admit when they need help.

[@EmmaBGames]

As a person who deals with medication regularly...LABELS LABELS LABELS 🏷 Labels are so important; colour coded easy to read, directions for use on them and then, if in syringe or cup, label that too. As a patient, double check any medications you are being given, and ask to see it visually, if you are not able to confirm medication and dose at a glance it isn't good enough. They must label it. Edit: and the person who is giving you the medication should be able to tell you what it is used for and why they are using it on you.

[@beautynewsglobalmagazine9848]

My 1 year old daughter was horrible treated…they told me she was dead when she woke from the coma in 2 weeks, showed life and they caused her to have a induce lung disease. After fighting to safe her life from the doctors. Her primary doctors ends up I feel that she killed my child. Even when she saw my daughter’s skin severe my burned bring the silver nitrate she put on her skin she just sent her home and my baby died within 24hrs. I filed a complaint but nothing has happened and I have yet to receive my baby’s autopsy

[@elizabethmcleod246]

😭

[@0003skye]

I was sent home with fractures in my pelvis, by Hopkins hospital. I was called hours later and rushed back because they had missed seeing the fractures, luckily I didn’t need surgery or traction because I could have died.

[@mrsmendy3845]

Dr are only human, everyone makes mistakes. We are never talking about the good things happening, only when something goes wrong. I think we should be thankful if someone wants to help us.

[@LS-ys8nr]

It doesn’t really matter how much they wanted to help if they make an error that permanently disables or kills someone. I’d rather not have them “help” me at all.

[@nicolebancov7492]

I’m myself a victim of medical malpractice and permanently disabled. Chronic pain and additional illnesses resulting from the surgeries are a consequence of everything.

[@crazyjessi89]

We're only humans. Humans are making mistakes, that's natural ❤

[@alicetlhone4034]

Own it up and tell the patients and their families the truth don't cover it up

[@delinquense]

You are missing the point. It's all about being"preventable" , learning from prior incidents and admitting that this is a problem. By implementing additional fail-safe measures, these numbers could be reduced substantially. Automation, digitization, checks/balances, etc. How, in this day and age, someone could have the wrong leg amputated is beyond me. But it is still happening.

[@mangygnoll0613]

@@delinquense This happened last year in my country, they amputated the wrong leg of a 79 year old man. It's okay to make mistakes but what made the entire country angry is the fact that they're trying to hide who were the ones who performed the surgery and just sweep it under the rug, and it's not the first time this entity is trying to get away with hiding the responsible ones.

[@arianefr78]

Back in 1988 in Bournemouth (UK) a new doctor was delivering my sister's baby but hadn't read the notes that said the baby needed to be turned as it was hooked on her pelvis, but instead he pulled and pulled and even threw my mother and the nurses out of the room and continued to pull and after an hour he managed to pull the baby out, but by then he had broken its neck and it had died, later he simply said 'other babies have survived my methods', by the next day he had resigned and disappeared. My sister was too heartbroken to sue the hospital...

[@judeflowers2813]

OMG!!!!!! That's horrific!

[@deborahstone9696]

That's 😢 the most horrific thing I have ever heard about .❤ from me to mom

[@mick6247]

… and the fact that that was his “method” and also the lack of care of the baby like it’s some practice dummy.. I’m sorry for your loss especially to your sister. All I can imagine is those are his “methods”, what other babies are victims of his nasty blood covered hands, I’d maybe make a post in your area, see if others mothers have had a similar experience.

[@kmo3811]

They sometimes make mistakes because they are only human.

[@kascade9145]

Doctors bury their mistakes.

[@yvonnedyer5371]

Or understaffed and overworked

[@mick6247]

But we have to remember there is consequences to those mistakes It’s the unfortunate truth

[@CLAUDIAHNRY]

Watching right away…. Must be a doc worst nightmare

[@Ooops1984]

Those eye brows are magnificent 🙂

[@ginger7344]

I couldn’t look away 😂

[@judeflowers2813]

IKR??

[@Donotevengotherewithme]

Doctors make mistakes because they are on call, tired and worn out.

[@BartBVanBockstaele]

Indeed. And there is also a "race to the bottom". Doctors are humans, not machines.

[@katesun2957]

No, not at Celebration ER in Florida, near Orlando.

[@Donotevengotherewithme]

@katesun2957 I was on call for 3 days straight. Absolutely, mistakes can happen when you are understaffed and only get 6 hours a sleep a night, 3 days straight. Thank goodness I didn't make any errors or clinical staff. When you have 10 patients flooding in the ER, it's tough. Each person has to be triaged, and that could mean the difference between life or death.

[@veronicalagor4771]

@@katesun2957 This is everywhere, especially in ERs.

[@elizabethmcleod246]

They make mistakes ie misdiagnosis because they don’t listen to their patients. They profile innocent people and they gas light them to.

[@PMaillet]

The background sound effects are SO very annoying!

[@cherigilliam3292]

There’s a lot of medical mistakes but you also gotta remember some of these people out there they go for this facial body, reconstruction Botox, lose weight. Some of them are to blame just as much.

[@BartBVanBockstaele]

Indeed. People go into this with open eyes. It is why they are asked to sign "informed consent" forms. Anyone who uses medicine as a luxury service is an idiot. In our world, people are allowed to do that, but it has always been my opinion that medicine should only be used when there is no other option. Anything else is foolishness. Many "medical errors" begin with the patient. Not all, but many.

[@katesun2957]

When I became a respitory therapist, I realized that doctors and nurses make the same mistakes as office workers. Only their mistakes cause death. That's why when I'm in the hospital every pill needs to be told what it was, what doctor prescribed it and why. If all my questions, couldn't be answered, I'd refuse them. Beware of Celebration Hospital ER. They tried to kill my son on purpose. Nobody was doing anything, till I told my older son to start taping his brother. The doctor was there within 2 minutes. She didn't want his death taped. He was in Anaphalix shock for an hour and a half. Usually patients die within a half hour. I asked the doctor how much she would have received for killing my son, and how much of a % did everyone else get, because I had never seen anything like the people in ER, just sitting around. My son has a good ppo insurance plan too, so it's not because he didn't have good insurance.

[@rockchicjaja]

The background music is way louder than the narrator's voice or interviews. Nonetheless, a good documentary. Sad for the lives loss on this incident.

[@markreed2041]

this is so worrying especially in OZ i shudder being in a hospital no good doctor here

[@yellowcedarnutrition]

Thank you for making this very important documentary

[@justthetruth2662]

What about the people who died and Dr's and nurses just covered it up and the family never really knew the truth of why their family member really died.

[@viliabone1952]

That doesn't happen these days.

[@katesun2957]

Maybe in fantasyland it doesn't happen. The family never knows.

[@justthetruth2662]

@@viliabone1952 it happens all the time

[@katesun2957]

@@justthetruth2662 Sure does, the hospital tried to kill my son.

[@ajlavanetwork5755]

@@viliabone1952 Unfortunately that’s untrue. Nurse here

[@FabbInRedd]

I love your docs, but please don't mix the narration over the audio from filmed shots, I don't understand anything.

[@Nurse66]

First year internship for physicians have 72 hours on duty!!! No way are they operating on all cylinders!!!! They are mentally and physically exhausted!!! I feel so bad for them…they are being set up to fail and kill patients also!!!! This ought to be stopped!!!! 😢😢😢😢

[@michelleives6344]

I find it ironic that the people who know about the negative effects of stress and sleep deprivation on human performance and decision-making spend so much of their working hours stressed and sleep-deprived. Would these kind of working hours be legally permitted in another industry? I was interested in becoming a doctor but knew I couldn't / didn't want to handle the "medical bootcamp" that interns have to face. I think even the army lets their soldiers sleep more hours than the average intern. It's a kind of hazing- let's see which 'weak' doctors we can weed out. Madness.

[@BoGame-p6c]

when you add in chronic problems caused by pharmaceuticals, there's a compelling case to be made that you're better off avoiding the healthcare establishment altogether except for trauma and severe disease

[@SuperMichelleDJ]

👍

[@pepper419]

Terrific program. Thank you.

[@joannecotter9593]

Dear Doctors thank you for admissions you have shown lay people true integrity. It's human nature to lie to save ourselves from judgment.

[@Annathroy]

The hospital doctors just did a mistake with my son and I am extremly concerned. I am furious, wrathful. It is not good

[@Popcorncedar]

My dad had knee surgery on the wrong knee. The dr had signed the correct knee and they had shaved the leg and somehow they did the surgery on the wrong knee. Crazy train.

[@chiyerano]

Watching this reminds me of why I at times would rather be a mechanic than a doctor. At least I wouldn't have to worry as much about harming or killing anyone.

[@knymwas4282]

You can fix brakes that happen to fail and have someone in a fatal crash. Mistakes happen everyday everywhere

[@chiyerano]

@@knymwas4282 Of course mistakes can happen anywhere but brakes on a car are easier to test and fix on the spot than some undiagnosed and untreated potentially fatal health condition in a patient thus less likely to kill or harm anyone. So what I said earlier still applies.

[@letsrelaxwithtexts2114]

My poor grandma was with a blood markers showing clear signs of a big infection and the doctor gave her flu pills... she passed away due to his lack of attention that day.

[@judeflowers2813]

Wow. Im so sorry for your (preventable) loss.

[@gamengoth937]

I always tell people. Be nice to your nurses. They keep doctors from accidently killing you" -kitty foreman that 70s show

[@tagelicht]

I like the topic being brought up, it is important to look at this - the fact that in many cases the patients are not informed is really alarming... if that doesn't work, how much else is there? But of course, we all do mistakes, also doctors. I don't agreee with the documentary calling out "incompetent doctors" so often. Mistakes happen... maybe that perception is the reason doctor's dont like talking about mistakes. But they have to. That needs to be ensured.

[@amyreich2524]

Too bad the music was so loud you barely hear what was being said☹️

[@naturesinterface6663]

the production is so melodramatic it's like an episode of brass eye

[@LuckyDog-v3h]

I think it's because doctors work such long hours maybe if they were forced to only work certain hours but then people will die because they didn't get care. I'm a victim of medical error that deprive me of schooling and work for the rest of my life at the age of 38. Just look at the hepatitis c cure of the 1990s and early 2000s they call us the first 500 but we took the drug for a year and interferon and ribuviron. And I've never been told anything that could help me with my symptoms. It's treated like it didn't happen. the worst of it was we got no compensation. I think we could have gotten help and trying to get back into the working society if we could have gotten her symptoms taken down a bit. And retrained

[@kascade9145]

Doctors only work long hours because the get paid $1,000 per hour.

[@viliabone1952]

Compensation isn't the answer

[@Tracy-xe9zu]

Good documentary, but in placed the music was so loud I could barely understand the narrator

[@arianefr78]

During my first birth back in 1985 I was given a pethidine injection to ease the pain of childbirth, instead I had a severe reaction and it did NOT take away the pain at all, instead it made me vomit every 10 minutes for 24 hours and gave me intense and excruciating pains in my lungs every time I breathed. So when I was giving birth to my twins in 1988, I warned the hospital NOT to give me pethidine, but they nearly did, luckily my husband intervened just as they were about to inject me and he stopped them, but whatever they did subsequently give me, caused me to have an intense itchy rash all over my body that lasted weeks, and I had to be put on high doses of cortisone for a month and so couldn't breast feed my babies but had to pump and throw away the milk so that once off the cortisone, I could resume breast feeding...

[@elizabethmcleod246]

Unreal! That is very bad!

[@elizabethmcleod246]

@@victorialockheart5213 So, you were abandoned ? What kind of doctor does that?

[@kcpoodlesofpa]

It could be a good doctor but if the hospital staff are incompetent and management poor, its just bad! I didn't watch it yet but after I read the title I looked at the channel, "only human". Makes sense. Imagine what we don't know?

[@edwinsan984]

Years ago I suffered dermatitis from a new deodorant I used. The first doctor who attended me said I had escabiasis and gave me a treatment for that. I felt worst with that. I felt muy whole body was burning. Then I went to another doctor and he gave me the right medicaments for dermatitis.

[@cindyenglishmceachern8594]

The link to your You tube site , does not lead you there . Just thought yyou should know

[@candysmith3457]

Ballarat Hospital took my sisters life. She was 13 years old. She had a surgery and the doctor nicked her bowel. She died a week later after her operation. No one was held accountable.

[@viliabone1952]

Was there a coroner's investigation?

[@candysmith3457]

@@viliabone1952 not that I’m aware. To be honest I was a toddler when this happened.

[@cedricksamaniego9146]

Humans aren't perfect, things to remember..

[@DonnaJo3452]

Did she have the copy that was in the clerk’s office? If so how did that happen? She should have been able to only make a copy of the document. Suspicious.

[@kathleenlogan8229]

My ex, went in for hernia surgery. Doctor repaired the wrong side because he was drunk. Had to do it again. And the nurse tipped my ex off about the situation.Smh.

[@ssfatima3156]

Oh my God .

[@mariajosemachadolima8610]

os médicos muitas vezes trabalham sob pressão de donos de hospitais que visam mais o lado financeiro do que a saúde dos pacientes e as condições de trabalho dos médicos exigindo resultados por vezes difíceis de alcançar..como por exemplo informando ao médico que o tempo de consulta dele tem que ser diminuído, tem que atender mais rápido...medicina virou um negócio..tem que dá lucro...planos de saúde pressionam médicos pra pedirem poucos exames..menos tempo de internação mandando o paciente pra casa quando precisaria de mais atenção...alguns até voltam no dia seguinte..sem falar no nível de certas faculdades que caiu muito nos últimos anos..tudo isso junto vira um caldeirão de problemas que pode acabar com sequelas ou morte do paciência que é a maior vítima dessa confusão entre vida e dinheiro.

[@brutarie225]

From wich year is this documentary? Who knows ?

[@Groovygal2026]

I’ve seen 6 doctors trying to get an answer for why i have a lymph node growing in my neck for a year now, another solid mass they WONT ADDRESS that they found incidentally in my thyroid while ultrasounding my lymph node, a worsening purple toes over a year, 3 normal results on a cbc, immature granulocytes in my blood for 3 years that means either leukemia or autoimmune, and I just had an negative autoimmune panel which I never thought I’d be upset about, But since that means the other option is leukemia. Which my grandfather died from. what am i supposed to do, I’m buried in medical bills, 22 years old, looking at a potentially terminal Illness but I don’t have a diagnoses. The doctors where careful to not leave any official notes about leukemia. the hematologist ONLY SAID immature granulocytes might not mean leukemia IF you have an autoimmune. Well now I’ve just received negative a autoimmune panel. Is there any plan of action. No the hematologist didn’t want to be on the safe side and do any tests, he didn’t have the time. And he doesn’t need to have the time for me to get paid. At this point…. the pcp has been paid. The endocrinologist has been paid. The ear nose and throat dr has been paid. The hematologist has been paid. The rheumatologist has been paid. The neurologist has been paid. And I’m out of money. I have no diagnoses, not a single doctor tried to help me or spent more than 10 min me gaslighting me about my symptoms gaslighting me about the results that do come back abnormal and consistent with my symptoms.

[@patjonker6576]

I am so sorry for you. Total misery to still be suffering and no help seems available. But I do hope you try to keep looking for another doctor. It makes a person lose faith in the medical system altogether.

[@elizabethmcleod246]

It happened to me to and I know the feeling.

[@Козак-т6с]

Try praying.

[@CynthiaSandbeck]

Is there other doctors to go to, go to next town with excellent doctor in the area. Go to specialist. So sorry you are going thru this at such a young age. Take care of yourself also.

[@helifynoe9930]

I have encountered several doctors who were experiencing OCCD ( Obsessive Compulsive Certainty Disorder ). In a matter of seconds, based upon my appearance and my tone of voice, these idiot doctors concluded that there was absolutely nothing wrong with me, and that my symptoms were all in my head. Fortunately for me, other doctors had a head on their shoulders, and thus yes it was confirmed via x-rays, that one bone in my foot was actually broken into two pieces, and thus it was not all in my head simply because no bruising had occurred. And in another situation I was eventually sent to a hospital for an operation once x-rays here too confirmed that I was in immediate need of oral surgery, rather than the previous doctor having said that it was all in my head and that there was nothing wrong with me.

[@emilyk1160]

Love the content but was very difficult to hear

[@noneyabusiness9441]

We’re all human as humans we will make mistakes deal with it. S**t happens.

[@AmyLeeAngelLove]

I try to be as healthy as possible... I don't trust doctors, nurses, or dentists. Stay the f away from me. From experience.....

[@erinhall1310]

I was overdosed by my physicians and went into kidney and liver failure. I basically live in bed now. I'm constantly told that there's nothing medically they can do for me.

[@elizabethmcleod246]

That’s awful I’m so sorry.

[@cbryce9243]

I want to watch this, but I cannot hear over the music. Harrumph.

[@ailanasalvi5399]

So in the last case, the doctor didnt know what the drug he was injecting was? He just take and give what is in a bag? Or i miss something?

[@adelheidharvey657]

Why do they call it a practice ? Because it is !

[@MrLalramchhana]

God also does make a mistake according to human perceptions..why not a mere human called doctor..were never build to perfection but to learn from our mistakes

[@anyaboscovich7938]

Mistakes happen. Are you impeccably perfect????? If not, why do you expect doctors to be perfect godly creatures incapable of making mistakes???

[@blackflag_N1]

There will come one day when each and every human being will be held accountable for each and every deed they did!

[@Ouchiness]

There needs to be accountability but systemic accountability as well as individual accountability. If we blame individuals for the mistakes of the systems that create them, then new clinical professionals will continue to be produced who will continue to make those mistakes. If we learn from mistakes and try to fix them systemically, then perhaps new clinicians will make less mistakes.

[@Happyandhealthy100]

A doctor did this to me - please avoid surgery if you have to.

[@judysanchez6329]

Is understandable the Best Doctors make Mistakes But still they should Take the highest Precaution? When Operating on their Patients body's ???

[@letsrelaxwithtexts2114]

The numbers of misdiagnoses by Day are huge

[@leigh3069]

It's called 5 rights. You check 5 times!! Right dose,time,route, patient, med!!

[@lynneawilson1365]

OMG, the music is so annoying

[@markbaker2370]

My knee ball could have been fixed ,They cut it out.Removed it . i was watching it . i dint know nothing at that time . Have not run since 19 November 2013 .

[@beautynewsglobalmagazine9848]

I had to find outside retired doctors to help me fight for my daughter’s life. Even when my daughter was triggering breathes they told me she wasn’t. They lied to me and did everything to try to make my daughter appear dead when she was clearly alive. The terri schiavo life & hope network

[@elizabethmcleod246]

Unreal! 😮

[@dianemorrell9638]

Pilots are human too but aren't crashing into each other. Doctors dont want to learn from their mistakes as they can just walk away because of medical insurance the taxpayers in Canada pay for.

[@blackieandfamily1722]

errors? i guess that some of them do it on porpuse for being too tired,stressed etc. specially in asia and they are quite insistent to actually cause harm to the person.

[@patmitchell2389]

Maybe if they didn’t work them such long hours,

[@viliabone1952]

The question is why do they work such long hours?

[@JBGAMBIT]

The training and residency requirements in the west are way overdue for an overhaul. Doctors have been complaining for decades, but the AMA and the ADA are both separate corporations. Corporations only care about making money. You also have to look at the connections between the lobbyists, big pharmaceuticals, insurance companies and the revolving door between these corporations and the government. Many doctors quit the practice because they don’t actually teach them how to cure illnesses, only to dispense drugs. Imagine being a car mechanic who has never actually fixed a car?? They get maybe 1 hour, if that of nutritional education; 90% of illnesses are due to bad Nutrition. Having a 2nd pair of eyes look at, and view procedure’s could prevent a lot of problems. Also, the “God Complex” plays a big role as well. This is why nutrition and exercise is so important; also being able to assert your beliefs to your doctor about how you are feeling is important; They can tend to think they know more about you than you. There’s a reason why they call it “Practicing Medicine.”

[@miyathebeeful]

Go to well recommended middle aged doctors!

[@deborahstone9696]

We don't have a choice these days 2023 after covid 19. .I myself have a terrible dr now as mine had become too busy.