When Doctors do Mistakes

 

In medical, disaster do not simply occurs,they evolve.When things goes wrong,it is usually because a series of failures conspires to produce disaster.

A doctor shouldn’t dithered.It produce a wrong outcome.When you are lucky enough,a wrong decision won’t be big enough to cause harm to anyone.

When doctors make mistakes,it’s not something that we can talk about and learn from it.

To prevent a doctor from making errors,the system was created  in  such a way where there are multiple layers of  preventive  measures to prevent any unnecessary negligence.

The kid was a 3 years old boy with known case of thalassemia and transfusion dependent.The biggest reason why I hate clinic is because of  general paeds.It’s definitely not my cup of tea especially with problematic parents and over weight kids where I can’t even appreciate a single vessels,thanks to Mc D.

It took me 40 minutes to take his blood and set an IV access.We have to wrapped him with clothes and the sound pollution was unbearable.Thank god I didn’t delete my subway surf.I let him play the game and from  no where,he don’t feel anymore pain from the needle.KIDs.

“Madam do you have conjunctivitis?”my MO asked the mum while checking the kid.

From far I can see her teary eyes.

“No,I just ate prawn balls and started having this panda eyes.Just a normal allergic reaction,”she said.

“Lakdhes can you help me to check and see if her eyes are red ,”my MO told me.Unfortunately she is my age and my batch mate.

I don’t think it’s eye infection,it’s looks like an allergic reaction.

“Loratidine ,cetrizine?”

“Give piriton,”she said.

“Once every night/PRN?”I double checked.

“TDS.”

1 hour later,the pharmacist called.

“Doctor,you prescribed piriton for this patient right?”

“Ya,”I answered.

“The patient is breastfeeding,so piriton isn’t suitable.”

I didn’t expect her to have another baby too soon and I was stupid enough not to ask about it.