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The Emotional Impact of Mistakes on Family Physicians
Eugene Guazzo, MD
Maryland Infirmary Chaptico, Md
Arch Fam Med. 1996;5(9):496.
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Concerning the editorial, "Physicians' Mistakes,"1 and also the article by Dr Newman, "The Emotional Impact of Mistakes on Family Physicians"2—yes, we all make mistakes, as we all know. The pity of it is not just the mistake itself, but that the atmosphere in which we practice militates against our learning from each others' mistakes.
About 2 or 3 years ago, there was a spate of items in various medical journals (mainly letters to the editor) about whether it was as much fun to practice medicine compared with 10 or 15 years before (American Medical News. August 23, 1993:30 and October 4, 1993:27f). The fact that we do not discuss our mistakes is part of the reason much of the "fun" is gone.
This whole topic of "mistakes" and the difference between now and then was brought forcefully home to me in, of all places, the Cardiology Institute in Mexico
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