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Originally posted by Soul_Rebel
did you ever made a mistake that resulted to loss of someone's life?
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Can't answer that, but I'll say that anonymous surveys show 50-60% of md's have. Fatigue and stress are big contributors. Usually its not actively doing something that kills someone, its faliure to pursue symptoms.
A gp I know saw a teenager who was complaining of general malaise and transient pain in the legs. He wrote the leg pain off as nothing and did tests for mono, blood workup etc for the tiredness. Everything came back negative.. so he decided it was probably stress and sent her home.
By the time she came back the leg pain had tuned into nagging bone pain. It turned out to be a rare form of bone cancer that had metastasized agressively by the time it was diagnosed correctly.