Pretty much off topic, but something that made me smile (apparently true):

A woman lodged a complaint with an hospital claiming that following her husband's operation their sex life had suffered considerably.
The hospital wrote back to explain that the operation was a simple cataract removal to improve his eyesight.....


>>>Luckily, I flushed that prescription and I dodged that bullet.. but thousands of victims didn't.
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>You'll love this, then:
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>http://medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com/medical-economics/content/coping-clinical-uncertainty?page=full
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>or this:
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>http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/uncertainty-is-hard-for-doctors/?_r=0
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>I'm reminded of the infamous true story of the manager who complained that surgeons were operating on too many non-malignant lesions in a national health service and so were wasting scarce resources. The head surgeon invited her to attend clinic to identify the malignant lesions so the surgeons could be sure only to operate on those ones. Perhaps you too would be so good as to attend a few clinics to make invariably correct diagnoses and save the victims from the charlatans. IME there's no shortage of people willing to profess competence when it comes to observing the obvious after the event- but scarce few remain when it comes time to peer through that glass darkly and try to improve things for the human being (not sack of wheat of uniform quality) who is seeking advice.