To Err Is Human, to Apologize Is Hard

To Err Is Human, to Apologize Is Hard

In this narrative medicine essay, an internist asks the doctors who for 5 months could not diagnose her son's agonizing illness to apologize and, when most could not, asks that the medical community shift focus from promoting a false sense of perfection to one that embraces humility enough to a...

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Veröffentlicht in:JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2021-07, Vol.326 (3), p.223-224
1. Verfasser: Krakower, Thalia Margalit
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Brain cancer
Brain tumors
Diagnosis
General & Internal Medicine
Injuries
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Medicine, General & Internal
Physicians
Science & Technology
Tethering
Vertigo
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Zusammenfassung:In this narrative medicine essay, an internist asks the doctors who for 5 months could not diagnose her son's agonizing illness to apologize and, when most could not, asks that the medical community shift focus from promoting a false sense of perfection to one that embraces humility enough to apologize as essential to the healing process.
ISSN:0098-7484
1538-3598
DOI:10.1001/jama.2021.10840