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Living with cancer: not talking about medical mistakes.

November 12, 2014

Gubar S.

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This newspaper article describes how surgical complications, health care–associated infections, and ineffective patient–provider communication contributed to a patient's experience with harm and suggests that transparency around the incident and preoperative patient briefings could have improved the situation.

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