Doc Martyn begins his presentation to the PCEC by noting his talk would be about the numerous “medical mistakes’ made in the diagnosis and treatment of a young Thai lady who had been diagnosed as having a TB related condition, which was not the case.
Since he retired to Thailand six years ago, Doc Martyn says he has managed some complicated medical problems, but there was one case that was a real doozy. A Thai lady was brought to see him at the urging of her Australian friend. He explained that in the West, medical misadventure is a euphemism used by solicitors to describe a medical error. In this case which he went into in detail, he said he preferred to use the real term: Medical Mistake.
He went on to explain how a government hospital in one of the provinces committed many medical mistakes in her case beginning with misdiagnosing her condition as being caused by…
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