EditorialsDealing with failure: The aftermath of errors and adverse events*
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2019, Journal of Emergency MedicineCitation Excerpt :While generally discussing and promoting physician wellness is important, many individual risk factors for depression and suicide are difficult to prevent, such as gender, life stress, moments of crisis, and physical illness (16,28–31). In terms of more specific risk factors in the medical culture, harassment, post-traumatic patient encounters, shaming after medical error, and the hidden curriculum of teaching by shaming can contribute to poor self-confidence and depression (1,9,25,32–50). In addition, shame is an emotion that has been found to be associated with depression and poor mental health (51–56).
Suffering in Silence: Medical Error and its Impact on Health Care Providers
2018, Journal of Emergency MedicineCitation Excerpt :Similarly, 10 of 11 interviewed physicians by Christenson et al. reported they had learned from their mistakes and improved their practice of medicine in some way because of the mistake (4). Disclosing errors to patients is not only ethical, but it also may help the patients or patients’ families heal (46,48). Additionally, disclosing mistakes to patients may help physicians heal as well (46,48).
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Reprints not available from the authors. Address for correspondence: Robert L. Wears, MD, MS, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville, 655 West 8th Street, Jacksonville, FL 32209; 904-244-4124; E-mail: [email protected].