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Brain Surgery and the Importance of Admitting Mistakes

From Emily Anthes’ piece on an article about Henry Cushing, an early-1900s neurosurgeon who “openly acknowledged and described significant instances of human error, mistakes in judgment and technique, and equipment and supply oversights, regardless of whether these events affected patient outcome. Mistakes were analyzed … Continue reading

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