What countries medical system encourages risky surgeries? As far as I’m aware “reducing risk” is most of the game in medicine
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Cypher@lemmy.world 2 days agoI’m guessing that’s under the US health system, where doctors are incentivised to only perform surgeries with a low risk of complications
Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 1 day ago
medgremlin@midwest.social 1 day ago
For a lot of doctors, the incentive to not do risky procedures is the fact that you have to live with the guilt of your patient’s death, even if you did everything perfectly. Or, you do everything perfectly, but they still have a poor outcome because they weren’t healthy enough to go through the procedure and the recovery, and you get sued for millions of dollars because you didn’t spend 4 hours going through the informed consent with the patient to ensure that every single possible complication was adequately discussed.
I’ve worked in emergency medicine and I’ve had patients die in my care that we had absolutely no way of saving. The screams of their families still haunt me and I will carry those cries of anguish and loss to my grave. I would not perform a procedure that was not 1000000% necessary if the risks are too high because I have enough blood on my hands already, and I haven’t even finished medical school.