As someone who read something like 4000 medical articles a year for 32 years I can assure you that research has been done on medical errors and how to prevent them. Maybe not enough but it is out there. The problem of course is to err is human.
As someone who read something like 4000 medical articles a year for 32 years I can assure you that research has been done on medical errors and how to prevent them. Maybe not enough but it is out there. The problem of course is to err is human.
The problem is not that homo sapiens are innately error prone; the problem lies in the system in which they have to make decisions, even allowing for differences in diagnostic acumen. And of course, the results or effects of diagnostic errors or misdiagnoses are too often, and unfortunately, discovered after the fact.
As someone who read something like 4000 medical articles a year for 32 years I can assure you that research has been done on medical errors and how to prevent them. Maybe not enough but it is out there. The problem of course is to err is human.
The problem is not that homo sapiens are innately error prone; the problem lies in the system in which they have to make decisions, even allowing for differences in diagnostic acumen. And of course, the results or effects of diagnostic errors or misdiagnoses are too often, and unfortunately, discovered after the fact.