Thursday, April 09, 2015
Dangerous Sensitivity
News item:
A leading facial surgeon "repeatedly punched" a patient in the face to try and correct a fracture, a medical tribunal has heard. Professor Ninian Peckitt, 63, was described by witnesses as punching the man but later wrote that the patient's face had been "digitally manipulated", it was said. The General Medical Council (GMC) said the case against the surgeon was not about the outcome of his approach, but the method of the surgery he is alleged to have used.Only one question should matter here: DID IT WORK? None of the available articles answer that basic question, though the statement seems to imply that it did work. If it worked, there shouldn't be any problem. If it didn't work, or made the injury worse, then the doctor may need to be punished for doing something that didn't help. Think about it: SURGERY IS VIOLENCE. Everything a surgeon does would be prosecuted as Aggravated Assault if done outside a medical context. Cutting, sawing, bleeding, burning, applying noxious chemicals, installing devices in the body. This idiot case is setting a dangerous precedent by applying non-medical Sensitivity to a procedure done within a medical context. ¶ 7:43 AM
