The following editorial written by a nurse describes perfectly what we documented in our book "On the Mend". The shame and blame existing in healthcare today must be rooted out before improvement will happen.
Lucian Leap has recently written recommendations for medical education which explicitly lay out that the behavior exhibited by the physician in the following article should be eliminated if patient safety is to improve. I agree with him completely that physician behavior drives the quality of the team approach to medicine. By the way,medicine is a team sport and each player has a critical role to play to improve care. This doctor apparently has been somewhere else as the new environment has unfolded.
Physician, Heel Thyself - NYTimes
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