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“...Most physicians believed... because, you know, it was a viral pneumonia... The fact that there was no live virus in the hospital phase of the disease showed this to be a tragic error borne of ignorance...”

“Error” is an exceptional event that disrupts the course of the routine. Once it happens, the routine should be stopped to find out the cause, examine its nature, and make corrections necessary to ensure error-free flow of the routine. That’s common sense. That’s also the standard way of handling errors in every imaginable field of human activities, from computer programming to air traffic control to manufacturing electrical components and more, much much more. All over the world, in all businesses, in all areas, there is no room for “ignorance” causing more than one error. If you allow a second error, you will lose business, pay huge damages and compensation, and suffer huge financial losses in the defective manufacturing process.

Why should medicine be any different?

When one patient dies on your ward, on your watch, with your signature - you must immediately stop all running processes related to the deceased and their circumstances. It’s common sense. And criminal liability. You must immediately examine all factors down to the smallest detail. If you don’t do this and you blindly fly into more deaths, it’s gross negligence and outrageous betrayal of your profession.

If you skip this step, or force “but we follow all proper guidance” on your mind, you are not fit for any profession related to human health.

The ventilatorgate simply exposed the underlying acceptance of non-thinking throughout the healthcare environment worldwide. There is no going back to “trust” after this. What’s worse is that we are observing the continuous aggravation of neglect in medicine despite the persistent fourth year of a medical disaster of the scale that has never happened before.

Error?

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John Haupt's avatar

I wouldn’t say Elon was wrong. It wasn’t necessarily the machines but the medical judgement to put people on the machines vs. other treatment options.

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