Hi Cheryld,

I like your attitude towards the community of the health-care providers, but I also want to add or suggest that someone who not only misses a vital survival issue in his area of responsibility; and then cops an attitude trying to throw his mistake back on the patient, is fundamentally dishonest and in the wrong business.

And I am deadly serious about this.

I easily forgive and overlook that kind of thing a a restaurant, but have no tolerance for dishonestly in a person with whom you place your very survival. I would actually make an issue with it and bring it to the highest authority I could. You could easily be saving a life by raising hell about this guy.

The wo/man involved is denying responsibility and refusing to take ownership in his/her mistake, and this could be fatal to the next patient who falls into his hands. In my view, this is intolerable!

He should be fired and denied work in areas where a live hangs in the balance based upon his findings or calculations.

There are other fields where s/he could advantageously apply his/her education; lab work, teaching, research etc., but working with patients, his dishonesty can easily be fatal, as I suggested above.

Bart