Sun.Feb 12, 2017

Michael Lee Stallard

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A Surprising Way to Reduce Mistakes and Accidents

Michael Lee Stallard

In his excellent TED Talk titled “ Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about that? ,” physician Brian Goldman describes the first medical mistake he made, how he made mistakes “over and over again,” and how the culture he worked in made him feel “alone, ashamed and unsupported.” The culture Dr. Goldman describes contributes to widespread burnout in medicine today and it makes future medical mistakes more likely.