Allison's blog

I want to comment on Allison’s blog concerning medical errors. I can relate to this because my mother was a victim of a medical error. She began to have terrible stomach pains and every time she saw the doctor, he told her it was her nerves. He visited her in the hospital after she had her gallbladder removed. When he asked her how she was, she replied, “fine, now that I’ve had my nerves removed.” She endured weeks of unnecessary pain because her physician did not take her complaints seriously.

While I know that some errors are unavoidable, most aren’t. When a clinician treats a person, that patient trusts them with his/her life. That is an awesome responsibility and should be treated as such. Care should be taken that no errors occur and any steps necessary to have that should be taken.