How can a profession once regarded as noble now become such a mockery?
In the quest for becoming an expert in a field of practice, a doctor specialises. The equivalent of learning more of something less. The all knowing profession now has tunnel vision. To only see what they want to see, and disregard the rest....
I have the 'fortunate' event of experience such, when a patient started to bleed out from his nose in the Emergency Department. He started to bleed at 11am and only at 2:30pm was the decision made to ask for help. In the mean time, he lost 2 liters of blood (Mind you, the average human only holds about 4.5 to 5.0 liters of blood). That is roughly 40% of blood loss! And to add salt to injury (though not literally) was the bleed was allowed to go on with no basic intervention such as a compression on the wound....
I call it negligence and an insult to the Hippocrates Oath which states among its content "I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone."
Failure to identify a problem is a harmful deed. For the consequence of an inaction may often be as grave as a poor action itself.
Perhaps its time for a paradigm shift, that specialist not to have a funnel or tunnel vision, but an hour glass vision. That their knowledge from a vast sea may concentrate at an epicenter of specialty, but they still remain conscious and aware that the vast sea is still out there.
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