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Recently I attended a meeting of an organization whose focus is in improving #healthcare. This is a highly respected organization. One ☝🏼 of their founding principles is the 1/
Recently I attended a meeting of an organization whose focus is in improving #healthcare. This is a highly respected organization. One ☝🏼 of their founding principles is the 1/
engagement of various #stakeholders including #patients and #caregivers. This was not the 1st meeting of this org. I have attended. I walked away from this particular meeting sad, frustrated & a bit angry. The topic was on #patientcentric care. A topic that is near & dear 2/
to me. The caliber of individuals involved was spectacular; academics, researchers, consultants. As I scrolled through participants as well as listened to the conversation and watched the comments come across the screen I was enthralled with the dialogue however 3/
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Something happened. That wasn't supposed to happen.
Or rather.
Something didn't happen. That was supposed to happen.
Eyes wide like saucers, they told me. Tears glistened in their eyes.
Them: "I made a #medicalerror."
Me: *listening*
They were accountable. They were.
Something happened. That wasn't supposed to happen.
Or rather.
Something didn't happen. That was supposed to happen.
Eyes wide like saucers, they told me. Tears glistened in their eyes.
Them: "I made a #medicalerror."
Me: *listening*
They were accountable. They were.
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Did anything happen as a result? No.
But something could have happened. Something disastrous and bad. Lucky us, it did not.
They knew that.
I knew that, too.
I was the attending. This was my responsibility, too.
So I said that.
Me: "I'm responsible, too."
Did anything happen as a result? No.
But something could have happened. Something disastrous and bad. Lucky us, it did not.
They knew that.
I knew that, too.
I was the attending. This was my responsibility, too.
So I said that.
Me: "I'm responsible, too."
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That didn't make them feel better. But I did need them to know that it was my error, too.
It was.
We needed to debrief. Wait. Maybe this was supposed to be the debrief.
Hmmm.
I thought about all the ways that has looked throughout my training and beyond.
Yup.
That didn't make them feel better. But I did need them to know that it was my error, too.
It was.
We needed to debrief. Wait. Maybe this was supposed to be the debrief.
Hmmm.
I thought about all the ways that has looked throughout my training and beyond.
Yup.
