There is this movement going on in Mexico called "Soy 17" or "I am 17" because 16 doctors were sent to jail for the unprofessional or bad treatment of a patient. Who knows what they did wrong, accident or not it left me to think in this ethic situation.

What do you think about penalties on doctors? Like, do you think it is fair to jail a doctor if s/he made a mistake or the patient died on his hands even though they tried hard to save it? They spend their lives saving lives, and still get discriminated a lot, or at least in this dumb country.  

Hell no. Medical science is never 100% accurate. Unless they purposely harmed someone, they should have no penalties. I guess negligence would also be a valid reason, but simple mistakes or accidents happen, and they shouldn't go to jail because of them. If they spend their lives trying to save and protect people, and then they're treated like garbage because they make mistakes like everyone else, then that profession would be damaged, and coild even cause less people to go into that field, which could cause even bigger problems. Seems a lot like the same situation the police (in America) are going through. (I don't want to make this about the police, just comparing.)  

theres a difference between "unprofessional or bad treatment of a patient" and making a mistake.  

Jailed? No.

Losing their jobs? Yes.  

It depends what they've actually done like Ik like a year back near me a doctor was meant to give a few patients injections of some kind to help with treatment they was getting yet the doctor injected them with something different, few days later think like 3 died and few were in critical conditions.

So for me Yes they should be jailed if something major that results in deaths-or leaving patients in critical conditions.. And if not as major but is something that they should know or whatever then they should still be sacked. They go through a heck load of training and tests etc having to get pretty much everything right to actually get the job, so big mistakes shouldn't really be happening at all(I guess here they could say about shortage of staff and long hours etc but end of the day they knew that before going for job)  

Depends on if it's actual malpractice... which I'm pretty sure at least in the US such cases are heavily evaluated and given a trial.  

making them star in our new reality based show death race is the only solution here.  

maybe if the doctor does something so ******ed that it literally can't even be conceived as an accident (i.e. stabbing someone in the face when the doctor was working on the patient's leg)

but other than that obviously they should just take their medical license or fire them at the worst, everyone makes mistakes

Edit: Okay found a thread from Reddit explaining the whole situation, from like two years ago; praise reddit! I'll paste it in a spoiler for those too lazy to go to the link.

Spoiler

Four years after the trial, last May 20, the long-ass-title federal judge issued 16 arrest warrants and a detention order for culpable homicide arising from medical malpractice against the doctors and those responsible for the unit of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) Intensive Care Unit on the Centro Médico Nacional de Occidente for the death in 2010 of Edivaldo Roberto Gallardo.
The child's father, Sergio Valente Ramos Gallardo said that despite this, still four arrest warrants are still to be issued, against Dr. José de Jesús Dávila Arriaga, general director of the IMSS; Dr. Miguel Leon Raymundo Guzman, Medical Director of the Medical Unit of High Specialty (UMAE); Carmela and Irma Rodríguez Rodríguez, head of the Intensive Care UMAE and Rosa Elena de la Torre Gómez, responsible for carrying out the medical certificate,
In January 2010, medical malpractice caused the death of the child Edivaldo Roberto Gallardo Rodríguez, who was admitted on November 15, 2009 at the pediatric emergency department of the Medical Unit of High Specialty IMSS affected by an asmathic crisis.
While in the hospital, he underwent seven surgical abdominal operations (exploratory laparotomy), placing two subclavian, these catheters pierced lung and intestinal sections. Roberto recovery wasn't allowed during the process, causing abdominal infection and death due to deteriorating health. [wtf? where the **** did the get this from?]
Apparently, and according to an autopsy requested by the parent to the Forensic Medical Service (SEMEFO), the minor was actually admitted with an intestinal tuberculosis was not detected from the beginning, which was complicated because of all processes. The results of the autopsy were partially different from those contained in the death certificate issued at the IMSS, where sepsis (infection) abdominal transcribed, omitting the origin of it.
To the coroner Alfredo Rodríguez García, authorities and medical personnel committed negligence, omission and incompetence by acting improperly and skip processes: "Here was a situation of neglect and omission, combined with a bit of imperice. What should have the medical coordinator who was in charge done? He must have met the medical team and review the case; a collegial review it should have done. "
García Rodríguez explained at a press conference, which should have a pathologist present during all surgical procedures and have been so from the first intervention could have pointed out that he had an intestinal tuberculosis.
Also reported that although the 16 doctors covered and presented to the authority to sign, does not necessarily trample prison for crimes that reach be bond or bonds by suspending this staff.
With the support of José Luis Guizar Abarca, representative of the Association of Criminal Lawyers of the State of Jalisco and the coroner Alfredo Rodríguez García, Sergio Valente Ramos Gallardo, father of the child, waiting to be cleared, and justice for all will lift the voice about the medical care of that institution.
"What I want is to set a precedent for the beneficiaries have another deal. The next step is to ask them to withdraw their card and their dependents. "In addition, Ramos Gallardo said he felt" morally worn and sad because I'm fighting a monster. "
They stated that this is one of the largest cases in the history of IMSS, to sue 16 employees of that institution medical malpractice.
What every article is NOT stating: The child had asthma since 4 years old, with no care from his family, he was helping his father on his job with wood varnish. The child was over 100kg of weight, and also suffered from diabetes mellitus type 2, with no adhesion to treatment. When the child ingressed hospital he wasn't having an asmathic crisis, he was shock secondary to perforated intestine.
It's all fuzzy on details of his hospital admission and what happened during, but it's all slowly being made public.
Medical community here is outraged for the exposing of the doctor's names, which is against the constitution, but media does whatever the hell they want.

 

These cases are far too individualized to just say "jail doctors" or "do not jail doctors."

Besides that, many surgeons(especially heart of brain) may be working 130+ hours a week. They can get called home from vacations to work on a patient. Mistakes are much more likely to happen in environments like that.  

Problem is that people tend to see doctors as servants (many people do) and them making a mistake or having to do something that the patient doesn't likes makes the patients think they are evil and doing it on purpose, which is what I think it sucks. Heard about a friend's mother who was complaining too much and was about to sue the doctors because they had to move her to a wheelchair but moving her legs hurts her. In this case, who wins tbh? Courts give more credit to the patient's complaints than the doctor's words, at least in my crappy law system.