• @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    2212 hours ago

    I’ve worked with a lot of good and a lot of bad surgeons, but even the bad ones aren’t usually dangerous bad, but like slow af, sub-optimal but passable outcomes, shit like that.

    I’ve worked with ONE who was just absolute shit at his job… and his incompetence got at least one patient killed.

    He got axed pretty quick… hopefully his license was revoked and he got charged with murder, but I never got any details of post-firing.

      • @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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        218 minutes ago

        No, he never got any media attention that I’m aware of. My concern is that he’s just hopping from hospital to hospital - hiring on, fucking up, killing someone, getting fired, hiring on, fucking up, killing someone, etc.

        Hospitals are pretty protective of their reputation and their doctors; and death is a thing that can happen in surgery so it be swept off as a “Oh well, patient signed off on the risks; and oh hey, this Dr said some mean things to our staff, so let’s fire him for that and hope we don’t make national headlines…”