According to the Florida Board of Medicine, Dr. Ishwari Prasad couldn’t hear the patients yelling in pain because he wasn’t wearing his hearing aids. He’s not allowed to perform colonoscopies for now.
According to the Florida Board of Medicine, Dr. Ishwari Prasad couldn’t hear the patients yelling in pain because he wasn’t wearing his hearing aids. He’s not allowed to perform colonoscopies for now.
The secret is, all power is in the doctor who can fuck with everybody else’s careers, while he gets to go chat with a “review board” of his buddies from med school.
I think this is the primary reason they fight so hard against nurses getting more responsibility.
I know a lotta MDs and it’s depressing how accurate this is, particularly the last part. Also a huge culture of sexism exists among doctors.
Considering about half of them falsely believe that black people feel less pain, I’m going to add in some racism to your list.
As a woman and a DO medical student, I have been pushing back on this stuff when I see it and have been challenging my classmates and professors if they are being assholes about anything.
John Oliver (predictably) does a great segment on medical review boards, and iirc it comes down to medical review boards being 100% ex-doctors who have strong predispositions and bias against reprimanding or punishing doctors, along with strong opposition to ‘non-medical’ trained people being included as an impartial and ‘common sense’ balance to reviews.
Not even the board. Their Union is one of the last strong ones and hoo-boy do they get to throw their weight around on medical institutions. They play super hardball when an institution or employees of the institution dares try to correct someone in the Union.