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Looking for More Information about Disclosure and Apologies for Medical Errors?
Here's an ACPE Tool Kit of resources that provide more information about full disclosure and apologies for medical mistakes.
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Physicians at Harvard's teaching hospitals have a new specialty to learn -- how to apologize. Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon at Harvard Medical School, says it's the right thing to do.
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The Physician Executive series on apologies: March/April 2006, Vol. 32, No. 2
Who’s Sorry Now?
by David Weber
Physicians and patients responding to two national surveys say apologizing for medical errors should be commonplace—and shouldn’t be done just to avoid lawsuits.
Full Disclosure and Apology—An Idea Whose Time has Come
by Lucian L. Leape, MD
Noted Harvard health policy professor, Lucian Leape, MD, argues the case for full disclosure and apologies. And he says patients shouldn’t have to sue to receive remuneration.
Lawyers Say ‘Sorry’ May Sink You in Court
by Lola Butcher
While patients and physicians seem to wholeheartedly support apologies for medical errors, health care lawyers warn that an apology could be held up as an admission of guilt.
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