Ouch, double ouch! When doctors and
others openly criticize others is a public arena, it often is not
pretty. And one mistake does not another prevent. I have followed
this discussion carefully after I first read it. Often I would have
offered a comment as a patient, but for once, I listened to my inner
self telling me not to go there.
I do not understand the total lack of
communication by the blog author. This is very evident and several
of the comments point this out. I do also have a concern about
several unsaid things in the blog. Was the blogger doctor waiting
for the PA (physician assistant) to make a mistake? In hindsight,
this may have been intended as no communication was done
It is known that many MD's have no use
for PA's or NP's, but to attempt to sabotage them or put them is a
bad light is no excuse. With the potential shortage coming of
primary care physicians, it would seem prudent not to antagonize
other professionals even though you don't respect them.
This blog has led to many comments,
twists, and turns. I think we need to look past this doctor's
“qualifications” and her self importance to what was she really
trying to accomplish in her instructions to the patient. Dinosaur MD
had to know that the physician assistant was on duty and was planning
what the doctor described in her tirade about the PA.
I must blame the MD for not knowing
what she supposedly knew and ask why she did not admit the patient to
the hospital for observation and ongoing medication. But knowing
what she did know, decided this was an excellent time to show up the
PA.
Her blog is well titled and especially
the name she writes under. We need less dinosaur MDs and more
communicative doctors that treat patients properly. When she sent
the patient to the emergency department, she should have made a call
to the person on duty and explained what was about to happen and the
opinion of the hand surgeon and her thoughts. This would have been
the proper procedure rather than backstabbing a PA.
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