The role of talking (and keeping silent) in physician coping with medical error: a qualitative study.

Natalie B May; Margaret Plews-Ogan

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The role of talking (and keeping silent) in physician coping with medical error: a qualitative study.

August 8, 2012

May NB, Plews-Ogan M. Patient Educ Couns. 2012;88(3):449-54.

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This qualitative study examines the coping strategies that physicians used after being involved in a medical error.

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