even if a single doctor does more damage than a single nurse (and I’m not sure of that), 5% of doctors screwing up would still do the same amount of damage as 5% of nurses screwing up.
Certainly true but not relevant.
A doctor knows thousand of diagnoses but for a patient complaining of knee pain most of them are completely irrelevant...
Fair enough. We could continue this forever, but I wouldn’t find that especially rewarding. I quote myself:
I think the more difficult question is what constitutes incompetence, and what levels of incompetence are comparable in nurses and doctors. I strongly suspect that our main disagreement comes from this aspect.
Which requires more incompetence: making a wrong diagnosis and prescribing the wrong medication, or giving the wrong medication, when you’re given the name of the medication? I’d say the latter, and so they wouldn’t be comparable.
Certainly true but not relevant.
Fair enough. We could continue this forever, but I wouldn’t find that especially rewarding. I quote myself:
Which requires more incompetence: making a wrong diagnosis and prescribing the wrong medication, or giving the wrong medication, when you’re given the name of the medication? I’d say the latter, and so they wouldn’t be comparable.
Peace out.