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The concept of medical error and its causes
It is a mistake that occurs in the medical field as a result of a lack of experience or competence on the part of the practicing physician or assisting groups, or it is the result of a practical practice or a modern and experimental method of treatment, or the result of an emergency that requires speed at the expense of accuracy, or as a result of the complex nature of treatment.
The rate of deaths due to medical error reaches high rates annually in most parts of the world, including developed countries. In the United States, for example, deaths due to medical errors are estimated at nearly 98,000 deaths annually.
The medical work is an activity that conforms in the manner and conditions of its performance to the established rules and principles in medical science, and is directed in itself to the healing of the patient, and it is issued only by a person legally authorized to practice the profession of medicine, and one of the most important requirements required by law to grant this license is that the student obtain the qualification The academic qualification that qualifies him for this profession, given that only the holder of this qualification can undertake medical work according to recognized scientific principles, and the principle in medical work is to be curative; In other words, it aims to rid the patient of a disease he suffered primarily, or to reduce its severity or alleviate his pain.
Examples of medical errors
A young man pushes for his life as a result of a medical error
Abdullah is a young man who was injured while playing soccer. He was taken to the hospital, and he was given a painkiller injection from the doctor, but it caused a stroke in the lung, which led to his death.
And in details, according to the victim's uncle: We were surprised that our son was transferred to the hypnosis department, after he was given an injection due to an injury to his foot. His condition rapidly deteriorated in light of the absence of an answer from the hospital’s medical team to our questions, and we brought a letter to take him to the Security Forces Hospital, but the doctor told us of his death without explaining the reasons. Citizen Salem Al-Odaini added: We refused to receive the body of our son, and demanded that the police attend because we consider it a criminal case.
A female doctor cuts an artery and three veins in a patient's abdomen
In the details of this story that took place in Saudi Arabia, a girl was transferred to Al-Noor Hospital in Makkah. Where the doctor prescribed painkillers for her, advised her father to resort quickly to the King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah to have an operation to remove her appendix.
After she was admitted to the hospital in Jeddah, a decision was issued requiring an urgent surgery, by means of a laparoscope, by a Saudi doctor, and during the operation that was performed, it was noticed that the doctors were confused and that a large number of specialists entered the girl’s rooms, and then she was transferred to the intensive care room, to be found later An obvious medical error occurred, which cut an artery and three veins in the patient's abdomen, which led to her death.
The death of a patient hospitalized with a headache
One of the patients complained of headache and dizziness one day after preparing lunch, so her husband took her to the hospital with full strength and consciousness, and she was carrying her little girl with her, and by examining her in the emergency, it was found that she was suffering from hypotension, and she was given more than one solution over the course of four hours And at half past eight in the evening, she was examined by an assistant specialist in internal medicine, and he told another assistant working with him that, during the past four hours, she had lost consciousness and was paralyzed on the right side, and the specialist and his assistant could not diagnose the condition, and at ten o'clock at night she had an X-ray A brain scan, and the consultant was contacted, who did not attend, and did not pay attention to the subject, and the patient was transferred to the intensive care unit in the emergency department at twelve o'clock at night.
On the following morning, she had another CT scan that showed that she had suffered a large stroke in the brain, then she was transferred to intensive care and she was not given the appropriate treatment that is given in such cases until two days later, and her husband could not meet the consultant until eleven days had passed since his wife entered the care And the condition worsened when she had a brain death, then the neurosurgeon refused to perform any surgery, and the doctors stopped giving her heparin treatment, and the doctor did not respond when the pressure decreased and said the explicit text: (This is her hopeless condition), and then it became evident to the husband that The connecting tube from the feeder was disconnected and returned, so the pressure returned to its normal state, and the care director attended after being called by the doctor on duty at that time, and he condemned her action and promised to make a record of the incident, and then he said the text: (Say goodbye to her, within two days something will happen to her) and indeed she died within two days of her uterus God).
