Surgical accountability in the 1880s: the death of Susan Nixon.
Watters GR, Walker DR. Surgical accountability in the 1880s: the death of Susan Nixon. ANZ J Surg. 2005;75(8). doi:10.1111/j.1445-2197.2005.03501.x.
Using an account of surgical error from nineteenth-century Australia, the authors draw parallels with how medical mistakes and accountability are discussed today.