Doctors reflect on medical errors and their profession

In 1927, Harvard physician Francis W. Peabody wrote, “The secret to the care of the patient is in the caring for the patient.”

This is the art of medicine. But is it the culture of medicine? …

Some patients who have been harmed during medical procedures are opting not to sue, but to talk with the medical team responsible for the harm. Health care professionals are being trained to apologize when things go wrong. Who benefits from a doctor’s mea culpa?

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