[url]http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/16/health/georgia-false-mammogram-cancer-sentencing/index.html?c=health[/url][QUOTE]"She just got behind in her work and wanted to try and get caught up," the attorney said. "She made a poor decision to start entering negative reports just so she could keep up. She didn't want to fall behind on her work requirements."
Holmes told WMAZ she was not happy with the sentencing.
"If I'm living a sentence of having cancer then you should live a sentence also: behind bars," she told the station.
One victim who wasn't able to opine on the sentence is Miriam Mizell, who died of breast cancer in January 2012 at age 63.
In a September 2010 interview, she told WMAZ that Rapraeger had informed her that her mammogram had come back clean in 2008. In spring of 2010, however, Mizell got a call saying she had been randomly selected to receive a free mammogram, she told the station. That test came back positive, WMAZ reported.
"I was lied to from the beginning," Mizell told the station.
Asked about Mizell's allegation, Houston Healthcare, which operates Perry Hospital, responded with only a short statement from CEO Cary Martin.
"Notification efforts to the impacted patients commenced April 2010 and continued to completion or resource exhaustion in the ensuing months," Martin said.[/QUOTE]
Her negligence apparently contributed to death of some 250 or so people.
You can't deny she did a lot of harm.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;44570306]Her negligence apparently contributed to death of some 250 or so people.
You can't deny she did a lot of harm.[/QUOTE]
But but...she could have lost her job! Can't you see what's important here?
Only 10 years ban from working in the healthcare profession and up to 6 months of prison? That's not enough, she should be permanently banned, and I'd personally lean towards a harsher prison sentence. It's a serious abuse of the patients trust and well-being, with deadly consequences. It's a clear cut fitness to practise decision, from a patient safety point of view, and she's not fit to practise.
[QUOTE=Terminutter;44570375]Only 10 years ban from working in the healthcare profession and up to 6 months of prison? That's not enough, she should be permanently banned, and I'd personally lean towards a harsher prison sentence. It's a serious abuse of the patients trust and well-being, with deadly consequences. It's a clear cut fitness to practise decision, from a patient safety point of view, and she's not fit to practise.[/QUOTE]
Not only that, it looks like she might just be paroled from the get go, and she has a good chance of getting it wiped from her record. Obviously we don't want her life ruined because of a few little mistakes.
That's pretty psycho. Does she have no empathy?
[QUOTE=Terminutter;44570375]Only 10 years ban from working in the healthcare profession and up to 6 months of prison? That's not enough, she should be permanently banned, and I'd personally lean towards a harsher prison sentence. It's a serious abuse of the patients trust and well-being, with deadly consequences. It's a clear cut fitness to practise decision, from a patient safety point of view, and she's not fit to practise.[/QUOTE]
Permanently banned and sued for negligent homicide.
Her job was looking at boobs all day...and she failed. Disappointing. A man would have taken this job much more seriously.
And how the hell do you fall behind looking at mammograms? Perry, Georgia (where she worked) has a population of roughly 14,700 and about 50% of the population is female. I'm pretty sure they weren't all coming in to get mammograms at the same time. Regardless, if she couldn't properly manage her workload she should have said something.
[QUOTE=Terminutter;44570375]Only 10 years ban from working in the healthcare profession[/QUOTE]
Don't worry, no one will even hire her ever again anyway.
fuck; this doesn't please the blood gods at all...
I absolutely despise people who are put in charge of such important jobs and can act so utterly idiotic, I don't care if the workload is big... It saves real human life. You know why this fucks with me more? My mother had a doctor that she went to a year ago for a normal check-up; everything went normal. But the special part? This doctor decided on the spot before my mother had left the visit that it was imperative that she come in another day for a mammogram; my mother decided to follow the request. It was that mammogram that discovered the infant stage of breast cancer my mom had. I feel that doctors intuition and expertise in finding the cancer truly was the catalyst that allowed my mother to survive it, because it was discovered so early. She's been off chemo for a few months now (she even used this thing called the penguin ice cap that preserved her hair) but she had a mastectomy to be sure she was rid of the cancer cells for good. We'll find out in the future if all the effort payed off. That doctor in my story is a hero to me
So this woman isn't ... And deserves cold hard prison time
[QUOTE=Appellation;44570391]Not only that, it looks like she might just be paroled from the get go, and she has a good chance of getting it wiped from her record. Obviously we don't want her life ruined because of a few little mistakes.[/QUOTE]
It's hard to put into context how angry it makes me that it's even remotely possible she'll be able to practise again after such a blatant abuse of patient trust. I'm all for rehabilitation, but trust is a key aspect of healthcare, law enforcement and a few other careers, and it's one of the areas where I honestly think that it is acceptable to strike people off permanently, especially for such blatant misconduct. On the bright side, I don't think any hospital will ever hire her now, so it's likely that someone who's been looking for a while will be able to get in instead, someone who is actually competent, especially considering how saturated the market is in the US regarding imaging staff, they're being churned out faster than jobs are being made.
I'm pretty hardline, but so's the HCPC over here. They've struck off and disciplined registrants for so many (fair and justified) reasons, [url=http://www.hcpc-uk.org/complaints/hearings/index.asp?month=4&year=2014&EventType=H]it's actually fairly interesting to take a look at their site to see what people are struck off for.[/url] It's even more strict after the Francis report, recently, due to how important patient centric care is. Trust is key in such a field.
[QUOTE=Terminutter;44570375]Only 10 years ban from working in the healthcare profession and up to 6 months of prison? That's not enough, she should be permanently banned, and I'd personally lean towards a harsher prison sentence. It's a serious abuse of the patients trust and well-being, with deadly consequences. It's a clear cut fitness to practise decision, from a patient safety point of view, and she's not fit to practise.[/QUOTE]
I would personally axe the prison sentence and give a lifetime ban for working in healthcare.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;44570524]I would personally axe the prison sentence and give a lifetime ban for working in healthcare.[/QUOTE]
Too merciful. I'd have signed a restraining order barring the culprit from being within a kilometre of any hospital larger than a clinic. Let's see how the boot looks like on the other foot.
[QUOTE=Terminutter;44570427]It's hard to put into context how angry it makes me that it's even remotely possible she'll be able to practise again after such a blatant abuse of patient trust. I'm all for rehabilitation, but trust is a key aspect of healthcare, law enforcement and a few other careers, and it's one of the areas where I honestly think that it is acceptable to strike people off permanently, especially for such blatant misconduct. On the bright side, I don't think any hospital will ever hire her now, so it's likely that someone who's been looking for a while will be able to get in instead, someone who is actually competent, especially considering how saturated the market is in the US regarding imaging staff, they're being churned out faster than jobs are being made.
I'm pretty hardline, but so's the HCPC over here. They've struck off and disciplined registrants for so many (fair and justified) reasons, [url=http://www.hcpc-uk.org/complaints/hearings/index.asp?month=4&year=2014&EventType=H]it's actually fairly interesting to take a look at their site to see what people are struck off for.[/url] It's even more strict after the Francis report, recently, due to how important patient centric care is. Trust is key in such a field.[/QUOTE]A surprisingly fascinating site to read through. Found a paramedic struck off for beating his ex-wife in a car park (violating a British version of a restraining order in the process). He didn't show up for any of the hearings, so they couldn't interview him and be reasonably confident he wouldn't re-offend.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;44570789]A surprisingly fascinating site to read through. Found a paramedic struck off for beating his ex-wife in a car park (violating a British version of a restraining order in the process). He didn't show up for any of the hearings, so they couldn't interview him and be reasonably confident he wouldn't re-offend.[/QUOTE]
It's less common in my part of the world since it's easy to bribe fellows, but when it does happen, the book gets thrown at you with full force. You're relatively safe when you finish your basic degree, but if you get chucked out during your internship for sucking too much, then you're gonna be unemployed for the rest of your life. Nobody takes on people who get fired from residency.
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