Originally posted by: braveheartdoc
It's very disheartening to know about your loss but I would request you to please don't blame the doctor like this openly at a forum... as it is we doctors are facing the wrath bcoz of media tactics who know not even M of medicine
I would like to tell you that if it was an out an out wrong blood group as in ABO System... which I really doubt anyone would do it... especially with Packed red blood cells...other than that if it was platelets... blood group is not that much of a concern...
Despite all the cross matching etc... we do know as docs... some reactions still do occur which aren't preventable...noone can do anything in such cases except managing them ...
No doc intentionally does harm to their patients... I know this being a doc myself... please refrain from such statements dear... it puts a question mark on the dignity of entire medical fraternity... I'm sorry if I hurt your sentiments... but please if you have any doc in your friends or family... ask them how it is to be on the other side of the counter
I am a doc myself. And i know quite what the procedures are when doing blood transfusions. That doctor never conducted any blood tests. And assume that my uncle's blood group must be the same as my grandpa when it actually was not. So yes such doctors do exist. I did not blame all doctors, I just talked about those who buy their degrees or don't know what they are doing. I never generalized. I don't think any doctor who knew what they were doing, would give a person with O negative blood a B+ person's blood. But It did happen in my grandpa's case. And such docs do exist my dear. You hear of lot of stuff that goes on even today, and this was some time back...
Recently it was in the news that some guy claimed to be doctor and was operating as doctor in some place in India. And he did not know M of medicine and rather used to work in a doctor's office prior to that. He used what he gained from working in doc's office and ended up harming many. So one can not turn blind eye to these things just because one is in medical profession. Sorry not to hurt your feeling but, I am quite aware of these things and never turn a blind eye on it just because I am in the profession.
BTW, in india it may not be encouraged for a doc to talk against other docs. But overseas, that is not the case. If you make a mistake intentional or unintentional, do expect others to report you, if you don't report it yourself. If you make a mistake, they expect you to admit your mistake in front of the patient, explain to them what happened, and than document it. And I don't mind talking about things publicly because it educates people in what to look out for. And such discussions are encouraged in these countries to educate the general public. There are always good and bad people in every profession. And this was definitely not a generalization rather it was about a one particular doctor. And anyhow, this post was not about doctors in the first place, I just wrote what i felt about the Sameer situation and what it was like to lose a grandparent.
Edited by paagalbandar - 7 years ago