The clot shots cemented the idea that a lot of doctors are willing to completely ignore the Hippocratic Oath. Ignoring everything we learned about the shots, they encouraged the shots to pregnant women on day one! They knew these shots could kill the baby day 1 as they were upfront that their side effect was a fever!
blame laundering is a hell of a drug. When your job is to do what's right for your patient, but "what's right" is determined be a superior organization beyond question, doing exactly what they say becomes the moral thing to do in your mind.
Couple that with the fact that deviating from the superior organization almost guarantees an expensive and crippling lawsuit, and you have a complete lack of actual medical practice.
As they should, this is no different than when doctors were prescribing a treatment to pregnant women that later turned out to cause birth defects.
The clot shots cemented the idea that a lot of doctors are willing to completely ignore the Hippocratic Oath. Ignoring everything we learned about the shots, they encouraged the shots to pregnant women on day one! They knew these shots could kill the baby day 1 as they were upfront that their side effect was a fever!
blame laundering is a hell of a drug. When your job is to do what's right for your patient, but "what's right" is determined be a superior organization beyond question, doing exactly what they say becomes the moral thing to do in your mind.
Couple that with the fact that deviating from the superior organization almost guarantees an expensive and crippling lawsuit, and you have a complete lack of actual medical practice.