I’m all for enhancing patient safety. Count me in on reducing medical errors. I acknowledge that medical mistakes harm patients and many can be prevented. The medical profession should promulgate and support any initiative that accomplishes these objectives. The public has become suspicious of the medical community who seem to circle the wagons when external scrutiny of its actions is threatened. Yes, sunlight is the best disinfectant, but many of these shining lights are murky shadows that do not illuminate as intended. Murky Sunlight Copyright Christopher Down The government and insurance companies are now providing financial penalties if certain medical quality benchmarks are not met. While this sounds attractive and overdue when it is expressed in a headline or a slogan, the true motivations and capability of these efforts have been questioned. Is it really about safety? I have tried to expose throughout this blog the fallacy that the medical malpractice syst
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