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Medical procedures can not have guaranteed outcomes. That is impossible.
We are not talking about the outcome of a medical procedure.
The OP of this thread talked about medical personnel making mistakes. If that nurse in the OP would have been on the street instead of in a hospital, cutting off the finger of a child would have been met with dire criminal charges.
Nowhere in this thread has anyone talked about punishing nurses or doctors for providing quality care, or even punishing medical personal for sub-standard care.
This thread is supposed to be about doctors and nurses making life changing mistakes.
You go into the hospital to have a lung removed that has cancer in it. The doctor removed the wrong lung.
You gave the doctor permission to remove the cancerous lung. The doctor in removing the wrong lung acted outside the permission you granted him/her. In any other setting, cutting someone with a knife is assault.
In the medical release form you grant the doctor permission to cut you here and there. Why should the doctor get a free ride if he cuts you somewhere else you did not give permission?