June 9, 2014 | Barb Carr

Doctors Make Mistakes. Can We Talk About That?

Baseball celebrates a .400 batting average, Healthcare fires a .900 surgery average! If your doctor had a trading card, what would your doctor’s stats say?

Check out this video of Dr. Brian Goldman, Emergency room Physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in Downtown Toronto for over 20 years. He is also a well-known medical journalist and host of CBC Radio’s White Coat, Black Art. He is the author of The Night Shift in which he shares his experiences of witching hours at Mount Sinai, as well as other hospitals he has practiced at over his long career. He talks about the mistakes he has made in his practice. He tells us what he has learned about being transparent with his failures as a way to be sure that he learns something from them. As people in the workforce, in any industry, we need to realize that we are not perfect. We must realize that we make mistakes and we need to look at those mistakes to make sure they do not happen again. That is where TapRooT® comes in to help find the Root Cause of that mistake and learn how to stop it from happening again. We have to redefine how we look at errors. Not as a way to look down on people, but a way to benefit our world by learning from those mistakes.

http://www.ted.com/talks/brian_goldman_doctors_make_mistakes_can_we_talk_about_that

(This post was submitted by Jordan Harless, Healthcare Research and Development Associate, System Improvements, Inc.)

 

Categories
Root Cause Analysis
-->
Show Comments

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *