Obstetrician barred from delivering babies after severely botched births

[Sal]

Yes but when not one but two patients die due to mistakes, that becomes a new ballgame altogether. Yes doctor's are human beings and human beings can and do make mistakes but the standard for doctors (as with most professionals) is very, very high. Nearly perfect kind of high with very, very few exceptions. (For which they are handsomely compensated I might add.)

So then the question I ask is, what is the standard that the College of Physicians and Surgeons adheres to?

that's part of the issue here regarding seeing the situation clearly...we don't know the death stats so we have no comparison...they should be public but people would lose perspective and ...who knows

 

[SLM]

that's part of the issue here regarding seeing the situation clearly...we don't know the death stats so we have no comparison...they should be public but people would lose perspective and ...who knows

All I know for sure is, were I pregnant (heaven forbid, but let's go with the supposition) I'd want to know about this doctor's history before using her services.

And given that she is barred from delivering, that tells me that her rate of death in patients is probably higher than the norm.

The College, from my perspective, owes the public on the first point since it saw enough of a problem to limit her ability to practice. If we can't have faith that the college upholds a significant enough standard, what are we left with?

 

[Nuggler]

Sorry, I forgot there's a different standard for Canadian babies.

We do take them seriously. **** off

 

[Sal]

All I know for sure is, were I pregnant (heaven forbid, but let's go with the supposition) I'd want to know about this doctor's history before using her services.

And given that she is barred from delivering, that tells me that her rate of death in patients is probably higher than the norm.

The College, from my perspective, owes the public on the first point since it saw enough of a problem to limit her ability to practice. If we can't have faith that the college upholds a significant enough standard, what are we left with?

which raises a significant point, how do we ever know our doctors stats and frankly I've never considered it much (until now)... I have checked my gp on the net, my dentist and my urologist...but frankly it seems to draw people who think they are god and that they saved their lives or others who I would label as whiney, crying about how they were treated. While I do think patient treatment is relevant to a small degree, I would rather have someone who has a bedside manner like Ghingis Kan and a healing rate like Jesus Christ than vice versa...it's a personal preference.

So how do we know 8O

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

We do take them seriously. **** off

U mad, bro?

 

[Nuggler]

U mad, bro?

Again: **** off

 

[SLM]

Again: **** off

Don't give him what he wants....which is a reply to his trolls. That'll only encourage him.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Every once in a while, I spot a detail in a story, that angers me by its inclusion.

We have many doctors in Canada who obtained their medical license in India. They are great doctors. By including the 'she got her license in India', they make it sound like we should worry that, in India they forgot to tell the doctors not to crush babies' skulls in.

Most of those doctors from India are driving cabs here. If she is a practicing physician in Canada means she was certified here.

 

[gore0bsessed]

How the hell do you botch delivering a baby as a doctor? you don't even need to be a doctor to do it.