What a near-fatal near-miss taught me about trusting myself as a physician What’s worse than making a mistake? Knowing that you’re probably making one, and doing it anyway. I’m sure you’ve done this at some point in your life: Overrode your own instincts and made a …
I spent all day friday last week at a risk management seminar for doctors. The main reason I signed up? Because all doctors are required to do a certain amount of formal learning, and a certain amount of that needs to be in risk management. …
Just recently, I called a patient to tell them that my error had probably resulted in a delay in the diagnosis of their serious medical illness.* As soon as I had realized the error, I had thought and thought about how to broach the topic …