by Carolyn Thomas  ♥   @HeartSisters
Mistakes happen in medicine, just like in every other workplace. As intensive care physician and president of The Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) Dr. Samantha Batt-Rawden reminded us in a BBC Newsnight interview:
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”   If patients are looking for a doctor who has never made a mistake, they simply won‘t find one.”  Â
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by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
I can’t be 100% certain, but I’m betting my next squirt of nitro spray that the Emergency Department physician who misdiagnosed me with acid reflux and sent me home despite my textbook heart attack symptoms (central chest pain, nausea, sweating and pain down my left arm) did NOT voluntarily report his diagnostic error to his supervisor or to anybody else after I was correctly diagnosed much later by a different Emergency doc in the same hospital. Continue reading “Mandatory reporting of diagnostic errors: “Not the right time?””
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