Level of ignorance, stupidity or sheer self interest is the only thing that allows anyone to suggest that a person less skilled than a doctor will make the same or less mistakes
But what about the thosands of horror stories where a doctor had misdiagnosed a patient?
I shared one recently, where a woman had chemo for YEARS for a cancer SHE DIDNT EVEN HAVE.
You’re a pharmacist supposedly so perhaps you’ll understand some pharmaceutical concepts (although I don’t even know anymore what you would or not understand)
Imagine 100,000 patients are prescribed a new drug. One patient develops a serious, unexpected adverse reaction and their doctor reports it. You wouldn’t say, “Only 1 in 100,000 patients reported this, so it’s hearsay.” You’d record the case, investigate it, look for similar cases and see whether a safety signal emerges.
That’s essentially the point of pharmacovigilance: an individual report isn’t proof of causation, but neither is it hearsay simply because it represents a small proportion of the population. The small number tells you something about the strength and generalisability of the evidence - not that the patient’s experience can be dismissed.
And here you are suggesting 1000s of doctors who actually took the time out to respond should be ignored and also the thousands that are probably too scared to report things (as we have seen people get GMC’d even when they are right) etc
Stop continuing to be a muppet and get your head screwed on properly
The irony of ACPs replacing doctors dismissing medical students
Medical students are more expert in medicine than ACPs
Else please show me that you can pass any first year medical school exams
@ConsUltaNT_ACP@2manypeople4me@PharmacistExpat And time is more than money to me.
I’ve spent 20-40 hours a week on this workforce issue for about 24 months perhaps more
An hour of my time is billable at £2k minimum
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I mean at a macro level - yes there are confounding factors of estates etc - but adjusting for all of that - people’s outcomes are far worse, wait lists are up by 300%, etc
Btw no one lets anyone do a retrospective study on this either which is interesting
I had quite a few doctors reach out to me during this whole Pa thing and they had asked to do studies in AnE of cases and they were denied that.
Does make you think :)
If you have some thinking faculties though
There is no reasoning.
They are purely self interested and compliant
3 bags full sir
And oh yes I can be a doctor too … sort of … (the grandiosity of that and the banding that comes with it is far too difficult for them to reason beyond especially when the leaders in the system are telling you you are doing great work) - but the fact they can’t differentiate between leaders doing things for public good or not is worrying
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Clowns don’t understand that.
They don’t understand stats
They don’t understand science
They don’t understand safety
They only care about themselves