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RE: The times I made mistakes as a doctor.

in StemSocial2 years ago

Don't know how to describe my feelings reading this, perhaps because my son is currently on admission in a government teaching hospital.

I reall hope he gets better and its nothing too serious. Teaching hospital usually have the best consultants in the state watching over cases but these days there is a scarcity for doctors and the government is not employing enough cause they can't afford them.

The most recent one was the transfusion of wrong blood. You all know what the end would be.

For transfusion problems the blame can go round to everybody from the Lab attendant who didnt label the blood properly or the one who didn't do the grouping and cross matching properly or the doctor who was careless enough to give the wrong blood to the wrong patient.

Mistakes are normal, but not when lives are involved.

Yeah....they become very costly and someone could die.