Doctors Mistakes

A Doctor’s Error Medical doctors should be able to admit their errors. Nobody is close to perfect. Everybody makes mistakes. Whether they are on a small scale or a big scale, they happen every day. This is true for doctors as well. So why do we not allow doctors to admit their mistakes? Why is the pressure of making mistakes higher on doctors versus the rest of us? Doctors should be able to admit their mistakes without having the fear of backlash and shame because mistakes are made in every profession.

Furthermore, medical doctors are individuals who are seen as mistake free. According to the blog “Doctors Makes Mistakes: A Commentary on Medical Errors’, nearly 100,000 lives are lost due to prevent medical errors. That is a lot of lives lost due to preventable mistakes. So, does this mean that it gives us to put doctors in a position in which they have no outlet to talk about their mistakes? In every profession, mistakes are made every day. Imagine a chef at a catering event that is cooking for a large group of people, but he is unaware that 3 individuals in this group are highly

Things such as doctors getting enough sleep can make a huge difference in the decision making process. Hospital put doctors on 24 hour call, depriving them of the sleep they need in order to make a sound choice. Imagine if you did not sleep all night and had a huge test in the morning. How well would you perform under very minimal sleep? Another precaution is to make a checklist. In a lot of profession they make checklist in order to ensure that everything is done and done correctly and doctors are finally catching on to the trend. Another they are making an effort to minimize mistakes is by asking questions more than once. Asking things like “what is your birthday” and “what medicine are you allergic too” can help doctors remember