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News Article
By: constant_craving Date: December 12, 2024, 5:07 pm
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Pretty terrible, and worse than I thought it'd be, but well
written:
HTML https://www.propublica.org/article/thomas-weiner-montana-st-peters-hospital-oncology
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Re: News Article
By: MidwestmikkiJ Date: December 12, 2024, 6:43 pm
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Hard to see if he was in it for the money or if he liked playing
god. Or maybe some of both.
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Re: News Article
By: GingerJ1 Date: December 12, 2024, 7:17 pm
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And most of his patients still adore him.
I guess nobody wondered why that small region had such high
rates of cancer?
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Re: News Article
By: acl-ny Date: December 12, 2024, 9:11 pm
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Holy fuck.
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Re: News Article
By: kkt Date: December 12, 2024, 10:15 pm
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How horrible. Beware of one-man shows.
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Re: News Article
By: Aardtacha Date: December 13, 2024, 8:04 am
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What's really terrifying is how many people just flat out
believed what he said even when another doctor suggested that
might not be the case.
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Re: News Article
By: MidwestmikkiJ Date: December 13, 2024, 9:11 am
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[quote author=Aardtacha link=topic=3228.msg291040#msg291040
date=1734098693]
What's really terrifying is how many people just flat out
believed what he said even when another doctor suggested that
might not be the case.
[/quote]
I wonder if living in small city surrounded by rural area had
anything to do with that. It may be people found it easier to
mistrust other “experts” than if they’d been in a place with
lots of medical facilities and where getting a second opinion
was common.
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Re: News Article
By: farmgirl Date: December 13, 2024, 9:51 am
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[quote author=MidwestmikkiJ link=topic=3228.msg291060#msg291060
date=1734102713]
[quote author=Aardtacha link=topic=3228.msg291040#msg291040
date=1734098693]
What's really terrifying is how many people just flat out
believed what he said even when another doctor suggested that
might not be the case.
[/quote]
I wonder if living in small city surrounded by rural area had
anything to do with that. It may be people found it easier to
mistrust other “experts” than if they’d been in a place with
lots of medical facilities and where getting a second opinion
was common.
[/quote]
I also think (and really hope) that in a larger city, there
would have been greater visibility and awareness of this
doctor's activities and his ability to conceal the fact that he
didn't do the appropriate tests and scans wouldn't have been
possible. I don't think any doctor should be a "lone ranger."
Had he been part of a healthcare group, there would have been
some oversight.
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Re: News Article
By: kkt Date: December 13, 2024, 11:07 am
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So many red flags. Becoming the primary care doctor in addition
to his specialty. Billing for seeing more patients than
physically possible. Handwritten prescriptions to bypass
automatic warnings. Just the sheer number of deaths.
Everybody is supposed to have a boss, and his boss wasn't doing
their job.
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Re: News Article
By: farmgirl Date: December 13, 2024, 11:38 am
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[quote author=kkt link=topic=3228.msg291087#msg291087
date=1734109630]
So many red flags. Becoming the primary care doctor in addition
to his specialty. Billing for seeing more patients than
physically possible. Handwritten prescriptions to bypass
automatic warnings. Just the sheer number of deaths.
Everybody is supposed to have a boss, and his boss wasn't doing
their job.
[/quote]
I'm going to disagree with this. There are many people,
particularly in professional services, who are sole
practitioners or who otherwise ARE the boss and who do not have
a boss.
A doctor or lawyer (or politician) often doesn't have a boss,
unless they are part of a practice. The professional licensing
organization can be the only one who has any oversight - and
that's generally only when serious professional violations have
occurred AND have been brought to the organization's attention.
And then the oversight is pretty darn weak.
This is honestly why I said doctors should not be "lone rangers"
- at least in my opinion. I think it's better if they are part
of a practice.
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