alt Hacker News> The proper decorum here is if the doctor made the wrong diagnosis. All fees and causal charges made by the doctor must be fully refunded and paid for. It’s only fair given the premium they were originally given to make a false diagnosis.
Do you think it would be better to live in a world with no doctors? You can already live in that world if you want. Thanks to doctors, millions of people around the world no longer die from treatable illnesses. Everyone in my family has either had their life saved, or saved from ruin, by a doctor at one point or another.
I hate this bs where someone tries to defeat my point by making it one dimensional. Do we want to live in a world with no doctors? Do you think humans are such simpletons that you need to immediately go there in order to break down the argument for me?
I think the world would be better if becoming a doctor wasn’t tied up with financial incentives and prestige. Lower the bar of becoming a doctor so the fees aren’t astronomically high. Also there would be more doctors so we don’t suffer from the glut of supply we currently do. Also more doctors means more competition so that automatically ups quality and accuracy of treatment.
Every doctor needs a rotten tomato score plastered on their lab coat by law. That number needs to be rooted in metrics not vibes. How many misdiagnosis he made how many times he lost a lawsuit for malpractice. All of that would make the world a better place.
> Everyone in my family has either had their life saved, or saved from ruin, by a doctor at one point or another.
There are 800000k patients who die or are seriously injured by a misdiagnosis every year. Show gratitude for the doctors who saved your family… but gratitude for the profession in general? My gratitude is much lower in the general case.