What Every Man and Woman Should Know
We are living in a 'litigation society' where there are so many
cases to be heard that you may have to wait a long time to even
get some court space. 'Professionals' owe a duty of care.
Professionals from mechanics to doctors, automobile driver's,
home owners & tenants, lawyers, social workers… almost
everyone owes a duty of care to someone when you are at home,
on the streets or at work, there is someone relying on you to
apply common sense judgement or you may be liable.
This applies to the health industry especially. If there is a
situation at home (with infants especially) where you call a doctor.
The doctor will come over and, where a child is concerned, would
rather call an ambulance then attend to the child himself
regardless of the severity of the situation. This way he is able to
discharge his liability. What would happen if he did not call an
ambulance and something did go wrong? He could be facing an
action against him. So, to avoid this action, he wants all of his
clients to be discharged from his care into the ambulance service.
When he makes the phone call, his liability is discharged into the
hands of emergency services. What do they do? They want to
discharge their liability so how do they do this? They take the
child to the hospital (regardless of whether the child is well or
not). Once the child has been delivered to hospital, the
ambulance service has discharged it's liability handing it happily
to the hospital. Now, the hospital is generally the top of the chain
in a situation like this (unless they discharge to a specialist
doctor). They have just received a child who has been delivered to
hospital as an emergency (who is perfectly healthy but unable to
communicate this in English form) so the doctors must treat it as
an emergency because in the back of their minds, all they want to
do is discharge their liability too. So, they treat your child as ill
(regardless of health status) as a 'precautionary' measure. The
drugs that they give your child always have side effects so, at the
end of the day (week or month), you are given back your child
who was healthy in the beginning and has now been returned to
you with all sorts of physical and emotional side effects. She has
been the 'victim' of the liability loop. They treated her for no reason
except "there could be something wrong" and, more to the point, I
have to administer harmful drugs to discharge liability. So,
because the child was treated, the people in the loop think the
child must have needed this lifesaving treatment even though this
is a complete misconception and they walk away believing they
'saved' yet another life and you are left to pick up the pieces from
the effects of the unnecessary drugs.