#malpractice

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the link in this post goes to daniel (op)'s linktree, which has both a full statement on their experience at tboy wrestling and a fundraiser to aid recovery:

Now before you jump on me, read this article.

Yes, we see Ratchet tending to Optimus, Arcee, Bulkhead, Bumblebee, and even Ultra Magnus throughout the show.

But who doesn't he tend to?

Wheeljack, and most poignantly, Smokescreen.

Yes, it's inferred that Ratchet patched up Wheeljack after the thrashing he received from Predaking, but the most obvious case where Ratchet actively did not help a wounded Autobot was in "Hurt".

I don't care how mad he was, I don't care how much anybody will shriek that he endangered Miko. Wheeljack was limping and clutching an arm that was seconds away from falling off, and Ratchet DIDN'T EVEN COME FORWARD TO LOOK HIM OVER.

There is absolutely NOTHING to defend this lack of medical care and flagrant rejection of doctorial protocol, because not once was it ever indicated that Wheeljack was a medic. Furthermore, the damage he sustained was so drastic, he had no hope of performing self-care/first aid on himself. He needed a doctor, and the fact remains that Ratchet withheld dire need of it from Wheeljack simply because he was ticked off with him.

Don't even THINK of coming and telling me that Wheeljack got repaired in the interim between "Hurt" and the S2 finale by Doc-Bot. There's no evidence of that beyond Wheeljack suddenly being A-Okay (which is merely another meteor of a plot hole courtesy of the writers who didn't want to "waste" time on "boring" stuff between action episodes), and a third option of either a separate medic Autobot tending him or the Rescue Bots picking him up and healing him is not possible within the boundaries of this ancient papyrus of a thin continuity.

So on that front, Ratchet is explicitly at a point where he could lose his doctor's license.

Look below for a summary from the above article.

Right there, it spells out my first argument. The next picture? Drives home my point, and also covers what I'll delve into with Smokescreen.

Not once was Smokescreen ever shown to be treated for injuries or possible minor health struggles by Ratchet. This is yet another case of malpractice because Smokescreen was like, the only living being on that prison ship. Which means there were up to HUNDREDS of dead bodies, disease, and even rust that he could've come down with and never be the wiser. Ratchet should've at least scanned him, but he didn't.

As for injuries, the most you can excuse that for is the pure lack of hits the 'Cons got on him because Smokey was that fast.

But there's still the concussion he got from going through the pyramid, and then the whole mess with Knock Out yanking a foreign, ancient, and dirty object clean out of his chest.

None of that was healthy, as the rust/disease/foreign contaminants on the Key could've and likely remained in Smokescreen's own skeleton.

WHICH MEANS HE COULD BE AT A SEVERE HEALTH RISK.

But do we see the consequences of this? Do we see Ratchet fussing over Smokescreen and correcting this?

NO.

This is once more where you'd have to pretend the check up happened after the fact, which given the scene of them catching up afterwards is highly unlikely to have happened. Even if Smokescreen is sitting somewhere as I think I recall seeing, that means nothing because there is no indication whatsoever that Ratchet took care of him after that experience.

In short, as much as any of us may like Ratchet, he is guilty of malpractice, and could (and maybe even should) lose his doctor's license for these failings.

Because who in their right mind would trust this guy post-War? Sure, Team Prime might, but anybody else who's never met the guy is gonna avoid him like the plague for this abhorrent behavior.

“The patient needs medicine drug to live or they will die!”

“No! Medicine drug BAD! They need House bites to live!”

The B.C. Crown corporation that oversees the care of developmentally disabled people will have its home-share program independently reviewed after an inquest into a starvation death earlier this year. Florence Girard, a woman with Down syndrome, weighed about 50 pounds when she died in 2018 in the Port Coquitlam home of Astrid Dahl, a caregiver funded through Crown corporation Community Living B.C. (CLBC). After the week-long inquest into Girard's death in January, a jury made 11 recommendations to CLBC, including better pay for front-line caregivers and changes to support family members of a vulnerable individual who want to care for their relative in their home.

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The new issue of The Atavist Magazine, by Rae Nudson, is about an ob-gyn in Virginia who took advantage of his patients and performed unnecessary surgeries for decades.

She requested her medical records and was stunned to find discrepancies with what Perwaiz had said to her during appointments. Most glaringly, she didn’t see any mention of precancerous cells on her cervix; the tests Perwaiz performed on her had come back normal. “If I was normal,” Debra said, “why did I have a surgery?”