Why do MDs cover for each other? They are just as bad as lawyers.
2006-09-01 10:26:54 · 8 answers · asked by Bubba 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Professional courtesy when people die and quacks get away with it huh? You don't have professionalism. You have sh!t for brains. Cracker Jack MD.
2006-09-01 12:18:02 · update #1
it's called professional courtesy
& sometimes they don't get a choice.
2006-09-01 11:17:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Medical culture. When you become a doctor you enter a very close knit group.
Residents (trainee post grad doctors) invariably make mistakes during their training, sometimes serious ones. We are only human after all.
But if residents were left to face the consequences of every mistake they made during their training, most would resign long before the residency is complete and find a less stressful job. It is unfortunate, but highly necessary part of medical practice that trainee doctors have to practice on real patients. There is no alternative.
Althought it might seem like a paradox, for the health system to function properly we actually need doctors to cover up these minor mistakes. It is not worth getting into legal disputes every time an error is made; this wastes money, it is time consuming, and doctors should be practicing in the field, not held up in the courts, defending themselves. Many great doctors careers have been ruined over a simple mistake.
The danger is when one doctor is repeatedly incompetant and his colleagues continue to cover up his mistakes. This does happen but not as much.
2006-09-03 09:44:10 · answer #2 · answered by MrSandman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't all cover for each other. It is a professional courtesy because they are all MD's But most don't cover the other if they are not complying with the ethical standards. The ones i work with pull together and stand up for their pts. One dr who doesn't have the best track record with pt and pt care, only took call for his pt and no one else. Granted some MD have a god complex and have no professionalism and those "kind" stick together like glue.
2006-09-04 02:36:57 · answer #3 · answered by mum 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WE ARE NOT AS BAD AS LAWYERS!
I would never cover for someone I thought had committed malpractice.
In fact, I have seen doctors turn other doctors in for practice problems. We try to police our own through state medical boards, hospital medical staffs, etc. We have to be careful, though, or the incompetent doctor will hire a LAWYER to sue everyone.
2006-09-01 13:04:04 · answer #4 · answered by Pangolin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree, there are no ethics left even among doctors today, including students, and teachers who teach ethics
2006-09-01 15:08:27 · answer #5 · answered by weirdoonee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it depends what Doctors you go with. Not the Doctor I work for.
2006-09-01 10:32:07 · answer #6 · answered by Happy Mommy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doctors aren't bad! Well, some corrupt ones are, but most aren't bad.
2006-09-01 10:29:38 · answer #7 · answered by anonymous 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not all are idiots. that's like saying all people are idiots...
2006-09-01 15:23:22 · answer #8 · answered by shiara_blade 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋