If you accidentally kill someone while doing your job, you suck at your job.

[DetlefK]

I think, that is an uncontroversial standard that should count for every profession.

That is all.

Thank you.

[RobinA]

1. You Don't Have Job

where you could accidently kill someone, do you?

On second thought, anyone who thinks they are immune from accidently killing someone is hopelessly delusional.

[Yo_Mama]

8. Tragically, yes.

I know of someone who ran over their own kid going to work!!

No matter how careful you are, almost any one of us might get in a situation in which we accidentally killed someone.

[bravenak]

2. If you accidentally commit homicide.

You need to be arrested!!

[el_bryanto]

3. I was going to say what if you are an assassin - but then I guess its no accident. nt

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. we use that standard on doctors and nurses

who seem to be much better about not accidentally killing their patients

[sarisataka]

6. Deaths by medical mistakes hit records

Deaths by medical mistakes hit records
July 18, 2014 | Erin McCann - Managing Editor
POSTED IN: Electronic Health Records, Quality and Safety, Policy and Legislation
It's a chilling reality – one often overlooked in annual mortality statistics: Preventable medical errors persist as the No. 3 killer in the U.S. – third only to heart disease and cancer – claiming the lives of some 400,000 people each year. At a Senate hearing Thursday, patient safety officials put their best ideas forward on how to solve the crisis, with IT often at the center of discussions.

Hearing members, who spoke before the Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, not only underscored the devastating loss of human life – more than 1,000 people each day – but also called attention to the fact that these medical errors cost the nation a colossal $1 trillion each year.

http://m.healthcareitnews.com/news/deaths-by-medical-mistakes-hit-records

[DustyJoe]

5. not always true

In 1968 a helicopter gunship pilot was supporting ground troops that had been ambushed by an NVA force 5 times larger. In firing rockets at a heavily enforced machine gun position about 75 feet from friendly forces, one of the rockets hung momentarily in the launch tube causing it to hang and impact short of the target. This was not one of the current fire and forget rockets of today, but unguided munitions. The short rocket impacted within a group of 4 GIs pinned down by the machine gun. Wounding 3 and killing one.

30 years after the event one of the three wounded researched and found the after action report of the incident. Found out the gunship unit and was able to contact the gunship pilots former squadmates. He found that the incident pretty well shattered the pilots life. He was subsequently posted in South Korea where he decided to stay and live after he was discharged and he never returned home to the US. There were emails sent to the pilot by the survivor telling him that what happened was no fault of his and his action of firing the supporting rockets saved the 3 survivors from their position being overrun.

The survivor never heard back from the pilot who carried the weight all those years. Hopefully at least the emails sent him extinguished some of his lifelong anguish.

This man did not suck at his job, the accident scarred him for life.

** I was an 18 year old survivor from that rocket that lived in a ditch for 8 hours with one lung shot up until nightfall when armor could get up to the surviving group and pull them out. I had many years to contemplate the event and try to contact the pilot just to tell him it was not his fault.

[rustydog]

7. You are very wrong

I had a boss who believed if you had to physically control an out of control individual, you failed because you CAN TALK ANYBODY DOWN!
Blanket statements are great for debate class and points, but they are not very productive as a whole. Belief is a good thing at times too, but unrealistic beliefs (like creationism, we walked with dinosaurs, the earth isn't warming!) can be harmful.

[JEFF9K]

9. "Uncontroversial?"

[Lancero]

10. And if it was intentional?

Police don't 'accidentally' kill someone. They have to actively make the choices that lead to the persons death, usually by gunshot.

Well, mostly - Their was one cop who accidentally killed someone because he got his taser confused with his pistol.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

11. No, that is false.

Even competent people sometimes make mistakes.

In some jobs, those mistakes sometimes lead to people dying.

[msongs]

12. human-caused deaths on the job are never "accidental", they are a result of behavior nt