WHO IS HOLDING THE CAMERA?

Radiology technician qualifications state by state.  Vary from, fogging mirror with your breath, to strict certifications... 

 No way for the public to know, and they are certainly not told.American Association of Radiology Technologists

Misdiagnosis is Pervasive in Healthcare and Radiology is Part of the Problem 
Imaging touches nearly every patient and disease category at hospitals today and is a big part of the diagnostic process. And despite its critical role in the patient care continuum, radiology lags substantially behind other healthcare practices in terms of quality standards 

2013 North Carolina is one of five states with no radiologic technologist licensure requirements, but Brenda Greenberg, RT(R)(CT), chair of the North Carolina Society of Radiologic Technologists (NCSRT) board of directors, intends to make a change.

Most of the larger North Carolina teaching hospitals have registered technologists on staff, a situation that Greenberg says is mostly due to reimbursement requirements. 
“However, if you go to specialty clinics such as chiropractic, podiatry, or even dental offices, you don’t know if that person has a consistent educational background, or any clinical competencies whatsoever,” she says. “In many places, they have secretaries taking these images.” 


2015, diagnosis huge problem, radiology huge problem... hodgepodge of qualifications for radiology healthcare providers~?
This is just intentional stupidity 

DUKE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL COVER-UP?

We all remember the 60 Minutes scandal over falsified cancer research dubbed "The largest scandal ever". But now there is more to the story.. a high ranking cover-up



Jan 9 2005  link to story Duke Officials Silenced Med Student  Who Reported Trouble in Anil Potti's Lab

Documents obtained by The Cancer Letter show that Duke’s deans were warned about Potti’s misconduct in late March and early April 2008, at the time when clinical trials of the now discredited Duke genomic technology were getting started.

The three-page document was penned by Bradford Perez, then a third-year medical student and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute scholar.
The Perez memo and internal emails that are being published here for the first time directly contradict the claims made by Duke officials that they had received no whistleblower reports.

Duke officials said they were blindsided by the events that reached a crescendo in 2010, more than two years after the Perez memo, following The Cancer Letter’s reporting that Potti had misrepresented his credentials, claiming, among other things, to have been a Rhodes Scholar (The Cancer Letter, July 16, 2010).

The medical student’s memo, titled Research Concerns, is a key element in a lawsuit filed on behalf of the patients who were enrolled in the three Duke clinical trials testing the discoveries from the program run by Nevins and Potti. Altogether, 117 patients were enrolled in the trials.

In addition to claiming harm, the patients’ lawsuit alleges that Duke officials engaged in a civil conspiracy. The case is expected to go to trial at the Durham County Superior Court on Jan. 26..

Misdiagnosis, don't document it, it never happened right?

Millions of people are subjected to hospital infections and dangerous procedures for conditions they don't even have. But always pay for.. sometimes with their lives.
If physicians' diagnostic accuracy were like air travel, one in 20 planes would not land when or where it should, and one in 40 flights would put passengers at risk of significant harm, or even crash.
 Diagnostic errors. In addition to the severe issues they cause patients, diagnostic errors are the most common....Frank Seidelmann, DO, co-founder, chairman and CMO of Radisphere, a national radiology practice, says diagnostic errors are largely an issue in radiology due to substandard operating models. "To date, there is still no established set of standard best practices that radiologists, patients, health systems and payers can use to gauge the quality of radiology services," Dr. Seidelmann says. "What is needed, at the very least, is a better clinical operating system that ensures routing of images to the right subspecialty and a consistent practice of blinded peer reviews. This will significantly increase quality of care, reduce costs and enable radiologists to practice at the top of their license."
Cheating on radiology exams: For years, doctors around the country taking an exam to become board certified in radiology have cheated by memorizing test questions, creating sophisticated banks of what are known as "recalls," a CNN investigation has found.

Those are estimations from an April 2014 report from Houston Veterans Affairs and Baylor College of Medicine researcher Hardeep Singh, MD, and colleagues who say that 12 million U.S. outpatient adults may be given incorrect or delayed diagnoses every year. Singh says reducing misdiagnosis must be a major quality focus for 2015 because providers and patients should not tolerate error rates this high.

This casts a huge problem for the integrity (admissibility in court) of operative records (legal business records), especially when harm or death is the outcome. 

Has Your Health Professional Received Drug Company Money?

CDC: More drug overdoses from prescription meds than illegal drugs. 

(Dollars for Docs) Has Your Health Professional Received Drug Company Money?  4 BILLION DOLLARS. In recent years, drug companies have started releasing details of the payments they make to doctors and other health professionals for promotional talks, research and consulting. As of 2013, 17 companies published the information, most because of legal settlements. Use this tool to search for payments 

So now many people who have REAL pain, real debilitating life long injuries are being cut off. Sometimes viewing suicide as the only release for their psychical pain.

Why should I speak up?

 "The Wall Of Silence" In 2008, this Nation wide problem prompted The Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert
"Behaviors that undermine a culture of safety"

Root causes and contributing factors
#1. There is a history of tolerance and indifference to intimidating and disruptive behaviors in health care.

Intimidating and disruptive behaviors in health care organizations are not rare. ..A survey on intimidation conducted by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices found that 40 percent of clinicians have kept quiet or remained passive during patient care events rather than question a known intimidator. While most formal research centers on intimidating and disruptive behaviors among physicians and nurses, there is evidence that these behaviors occur among other health care professionals...

The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety Sixty-seven percent of the respondents agreed that disruptive behaviors were linked with adverse events; the result for medical errors was 71%, and patient mortality, 27%. 2008 The Joint Commission issued a mandate for basic safe surgery protocols to reduce patient harm.  Five year latter, enforcing these safe surgery mandates is spotty at best.

This Wall of Silence caused by intimidation keeps healthcare locked in a deadly spiral.