Doctors shocked by prison sentence: Whilst mistakes are inexcusible, it seems to me that this does nothing to entice me back into working for the NHS. I was lucky never to have knowingly directly caused a death whilst working as a doctor. That is not to say I never made mistakes that I nor no one else picked up. I certainly had potential mistakes corrected by pharmacists. I wonder how much sleep this doctor had in the weeks leading up to this tradegy?
It is astonishing that systems have not been put in place to prevent this kind of thing from happening. The system is clearly at fault in this particular kind of error. But until we have a system that applies similar constraints to doctors workloads that lorry drivers and pilots have I doubt that mistakes like this will cease in a hurry.
One more reason to be glad of my new job I say!
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