Two US doctors made a documentary about the impact of medical errors by interviewing patients and families that had been affected by medical error and found that doctors and patients felt the same kind of guilt, fear and isolation after the medical errors occur.
"How can patients, families and clinicians move beyond these feelings and approach closure and forgiveness?" the authors wrote.
Read the free full text article : "Guilty, Afraid, and Alone — Struggling with Medical Error", NEJM 357(17):1682-1683.
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