I agree with you to a large degree.
Hate to tell you this....
But a WHOLE lot of other professions are the same way.... Including healthcare...
I have said numerous times... 30 percent of people who do my job as a RN... Should not do it...
People not knowing how to act, how to get along with people, how to handle circumstances appropriately, how to interact with people in very difficult circumstances, etc etc etc...
If we went after healthcare the way we are going after people in law enforcement....
Every hospital would be shut down tomorrow.... And certainly ever nursing home.... Shut down.
Medical errors is one of the bigger causes of death in this US. Far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far more people have died from medical errors in a calendar year versus circumstances involving law enforcement.
I know of one particular incident where a patient vwas given 8 mg of Dilaudid IV push... Killed the patient dead. When the code team showed up... The person did not tell them what was given and what had happened... IV Narcan would have likely had a good chance of bringing that patient back... That person was charged with manslaughter.