| I greatly appreciate this response. We’ve come full circle. When seen by a competent physician who appropriately consents patients understand complications. Your issue is that your mother was misdiagnosed (at least by what was communicated on this thread) and by your description I agree. I addressed this in further detail to one of your comments above, but for any readers I would like to also clarify this here. Your original comment stated: “There are quite a few incompetent doctors, sadly, and they stick together and support each other. While I'm generally reluctant to bring up identity politics, it does appear that women and people of colour tend to experience this worse than others” You later clarified: “Essentially my mum lives on an island nation where there is only a singular local hospital with a fairly poor reputation.” I explained above why isolated locations such as this island with a singular hospital don’t attract recently trained/high quality physicians which is also obvious. Consequently the percentage of poor/incompetent physicians will be much higher. There are also fewer physicians for phyisican-physician consults and a singular hospital such as yours probably doesn’t have morbidity and mortality rounds and a QA program. Therefore your experience, in an island nation with one hospital, is not representative of the modern healthcare experience and the physicians there are likely not on par with metropolitan centres. With that said, you also choose to live in an island nation (irrespective of the reason this is a choice). That comes with the known disadvantage of poor access to quality healthcare just like every other white collar profession. It is important to not generalize such an atypical practice setting to the general population as this is a heavily biased view. |