Ashamed to admit it: owning up to medical error.

Danielle Ofri

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Ashamed to admit it: owning up to medical error.

December 8, 2016

Ofri D. Health Aff (Millwood). 2010;29(8):1549-51.

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This narrative discusses how shame and embarrassment associated with near misses should be more effectively addressed.

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