What in god's name are you talking about? Seriously, is it just that anytime someone questions someone or points out a flaw in someone in the same/similar profession as you that you automatically tune out and disagree? This is what was posted originally:
Do you really think that nobody, no doctor, no PA, no NP has ever mistakenly written "gram" when they meant to write "milligram" or "microgram" on a prescription? Or added a zero or two to the dose? Misplaced the decimal point? Do you not understand that, depending on the drug, taking several grams instead of several milligrams or micrograms could potentially be a lethal dose?
People with agendas are generally not worth dealing with. You friend, fall into that category.
Oh, triemal. Still having a hard time figuring out the point of all this?
First, let me make sure I understand your position: You have no problem with someone publicly saying essentially that "provider group A is incompetent because I saw one of them make a big mistake once, but provider group B is awesome because I dealt with one once who did a great job" (not what was actually written, of course, but was clearly the implication), and supporting that position with a single, questionable example. But you DO have a problem with someone else coming along and saying "No, you can't draw conclusions about an entire group based on a single example, especially when that example is dubious". And you think that response shows an agenda of some sort, but the original claim does not? Obviously, you and I have very different standards for what constitutes evidence of an agenda.
What seems just beyond your grasp is the fact that whether this NP actually made the error in question is completely irrelevant. Yes, I did express doubt that it happened
as described - there are several reasons why I think that's unlikely, and we can discuss those separately if you want to. However, I also did concede that it
could have happened, because of course med errors happen. Maybe you missed that? Again, that's not the real issue here at all.
The real issue is the logical fallacy of claiming that one group of providers is incompetent but the other is not, because of a single interaction. Doesn't matter what specific mistake was made, who made it, or whether it was as bad as described. It's a false generalization either way, and I would have called it out whether the person in the story making the mistake was the NP, PA, CRNA, MD, DO, gay, straight, black, white, whatever.
