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halcombe
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| Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 12:12 am
Post subject: 'Buff the notes' - medical jargon |
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To judge from a BBC series 'Bodies'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/bodies/index.shtml
the average slaughterman has more feelings for the beasts that pass
through his abattoir than a surgeon for his patients.
When an operation has been botched, the wrong drug given, or whatever
negligence it might be, it is apparently standard procedure for one of
the quacks concerned to falsify the patient's records in order to
destroy any evidence of malpractice.
It seems
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1218953,00.html
that this practice is knowing in the UK as 'buffing the notes'.
Apparently, in Britain,
'One in every 10 hospital patients is harmed by a medical error. As
many as 70,000 people die every year as a result of doctors'
mistakes.'
By contrast, around 3,500 are killed on the roads each year...
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John Dean
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| Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 6:04 am
Post subject: Re: 'Buff the notes' - medical jargon |
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halcombe wrote:
| Quote: | To judge from a BBC series 'Bodies'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/bodies/index.shtml
the average slaughterman has more feelings for the beasts that pass
through his abattoir than a surgeon for his patients.
When an operation has been botched, the wrong drug given, or whatever
negligence it might be, it is apparently standard procedure for one of
the quacks concerned to falsify the patient's records in order to
destroy any evidence of malpractice.
It seems
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1218953,00.html
that this practice is knowing in the UK as 'buffing the notes'.
Apparently, in Britain,
'One in every 10 hospital patients is harmed by a medical error. As
many as 70,000 people die every year as a result of doctors'
mistakes.'
By contrast, around 3,500 are killed on the roads each year...
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And some of those 3,500 are killed by Doctors at the wheel ...
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John Dean
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Chris Malcolm
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| Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 12:04 pm
Post subject: Re: 'Buff the notes' - medical jargon |
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John Dean <john-dean@frag.lineone.net> wrote:
| Quote: | halcombe wrote:
Apparently, in Britain,
'One in every 10 hospital patients is harmed by a medical error. As
many as 70,000 people die every year as a result of doctors'
mistakes.'
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This is a very dubious statistic. It's very hard to collect such
numbers without including people who are dying, in a condition where
risky methods are appropriate, and where a fatal error simply hastens
an inevitable death.
| Quote: | By contrast, around 3,500 are killed on the roads each year...
And some of those 3,500 are killed by Doctors at the wheel ...
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And some are killed by drivers under the influence of a prescription
drug that the doctor said "won't affect your driving".
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Chris Malcolm cam@infirmatics.ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 651 3445 DoD #205
IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]
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Robin Bignall
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 6:05 am
Post subject: Re: 'Buff the notes' - medical jargon |
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On 24 Nov 2004 13:58:15 -0800, halcombe@subdimension.com (halcombe)
wrote:
| Quote: | To judge from a BBC series 'Bodies'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/bodies/index.shtml
the average slaughterman has more feelings for the beasts that pass
through his abattoir than a surgeon for his patients.
When an operation has been botched, the wrong drug given, or whatever
negligence it might be, it is apparently standard procedure for one of
the quacks concerned to falsify the patient's records in order to
destroy any evidence of malpractice.
It seems
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1218953,00.html
that this practice is knowing in the UK as 'buffing the notes'.
They don't even have to expend so much energy. In my case, all of the |
surgeon's notes concerning the operations that put me into hospital
for over 400 days were simply removed from the records. Negligence
could be inferred, but not proved.
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wrmst rgrds
Robin Bignall
Hertfordshire
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