MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'doctor's mistakes'. Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:29:50 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2266833&cid=t_230849_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2FpcoKlRb5qDg%2F If something doesn’t seem right, it’s not your right to stand up for yourself, it’s your responsibility. Your health is something that you need to take control of and long-gone are the days that “Doctor knows best.” Doctors are human, they make mistakes. Nurses and other healthcare professionals do too. The problem is, in many professions mistakes don’t affect lives quite as directly as they do if someone in health care does. Someone I know through the Internet brought this home the other day and the message is frightening. Although to err is human, when a doctor refuses to even consider that he or she may have made an error, treating you as a worry wart, that’s gone into another zone completely. This writer was diagnosed with breast cancer recentl... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2266833 Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:22:44 +0100 2266833