Doctors are not accountable for their murders and mistakes

When we  go to the hospital or the doctors office, we as patients think that we are getting the best medical treatment there is; however,  that is not the case. Doctors are one of the causes of death in the world today. We would think that doctors learn from their mistakes,  but they do not because they’re not accountable for their mistakes.  Accountability is important in the health care field. According to the article Medical Staff Accountability will Improve Performance,  accountability is described as “the procedures and processes by which one party justifies and takes responsibility for its activities such as for achieving various organization goals”. Accountability will improve the quality and outcome of healthcare and give patients good healthcare.

Doctors are known to help people, but they make mistakes from time to time. Unlike other professions, they are not monitored and not disciplined. This gives room for more mistakes. The whole entire medical team should be accountable and should abide by the same rules. This will create a system where everyone has equal responsibility and would serve the best quality health service . Accountability should also be tied to behavior of the health professional and the expectations they need to fulfill.  If these health professionals are accountable for their medical mistakes, medical error will be less and patients will be satisfied with their health care.

In the article To Err is Human: Building a safer health system, it says ” medical errors can be defined as the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended or the use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim”. This can be views as a doctor giving the wrong diagnosis to a patient. We think that doctors are giving us the best care, however, they just gave us the wrong treatment. The doctors are not punished for their mistake so this misdiagnosis can happen to someone else. Medical errors are also costly in the doctors pay check and hospital bills. Most importantly, if the medical field is accountable for their actions, they will have a patients loyalty and trust.

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