MedPage Today August 9, 2022
— They’re systemic problems, not individual
Medical mistakes are as old as the practice of medicine itself, but it wasn’t until 1999 that the United States started paying more attention to them.
Over 20 years later, we may be reducing medical errors — a recent study published in JAMA found significant decreases in mistakes in cases of pneumonia, acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and surgery between 2010 and 2019 — but the way we’re reacting to people who disclose them is worrying. That is, we treat those who report them more harshly than those who cover them up.
Recently, the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center reinstated Dr. Robert Cameron as chief of thoracic surgery; Dr. Cameron reported concerns about...
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