Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes, the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. Plutarch In a perfect world, physicians would never get tired and never get stymied by a patient with an unusual symptom. They wouldn’t have to hand-off their patients to the doctor working the next shift and nurses would communicate instructions to each other with perfect clarity.
Sadly, the real world is far more error-prone, and while most medical errors are small harmless slip-ups, occasionally they balloon into full-blown tragedies. While patients know that doctors will not always be able to cure them, they do expect that they will at least not be harmed; and that the treatment will not be worse than the disease. Medical errors are the dark side of medical progress, a consequence…
