From the New York Times:
Laura Sweet, deputy chief of enforcement at the Medical Board of California, described the case of a resident at a University of California hospital who noticed a problem with a fetal monitoring strip on a woman in labor, but didn’t call anyone.
“He was afraid to contact the attending physician, who was notorious for yelling and ridiculing the residents,” Ms. Sweet said. The baby died.
(Full article here)
Fear. What system produces it? You know the answer: a dictatorship system. And dictatorship systems kill. Literally.
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