Would you want them operating on you?
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Replying to @lynn_laidlaw @DrJimboNHS and
The big flaw in your argument is the fact that anastomotic breakdown is not the sole responsibility of how well someone stitched your tissues together. The whole team needs to be analysed.
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Replying to @iceman_ex @DrJimboNHS and
Not arguing with that but surgery starts with a surgeon!
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Replying to @lynn_laidlaw @iceman_ex and
No it doesn't. It starts with the patient. How fit they are, co-morbidities, smoking, drinking, nutritional status, obesity, all influence wound healing and the potential for anastomotic healing vs breakdown.
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Replying to @DrJimboNHS @iceman_ex and
I think you are being deliberately obtuse. If there is no surgeon willing/ able to do the op in any given hospital then none of the other variables arise.
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Replying to @lynn_laidlaw @DrJimboNHS and
Please explain. The need for surgery existed long before surgeons. And attributable mortality from surgical conditions remains with or without surgery.
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Replying to @iceman_ex @DrJimboNHS and
True. Without someone willing to wield the scalpel then it can't go ahead in a particular Hospital. The original question was do you believe all your colleagues are equal skill wise?
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Replying to @lynn_laidlaw @DrJimboNHS and
This is one of healthcare’s biggest problems. The answer is no. Yet healthcare- and patients- don’t ask for, or pay for high skill. Our currency is “competence”
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Replying to @iceman_ex @DrJimboNHS and
If every healthcare professional was competent I would settle for that.
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Replying to @lynn_laidlaw @DrJimboNHS and
That’s also an interesting phrase. You can be competent and terrible at your job. I wouldn’t settle for competence, and I’d urge you and every patient around you to not settle for it either.
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Oh I don't know. I'd have been happy to get someone who acted in keeping with consent and knew where to start their surgical procedure from. Competent sounds positively luxurious to me. Guess it depends on your perspective...
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