Comments on: Surgeons Plus Burnout Equals Medical Malpractice http://www.thenewyorkmedicalmalpracticelawblog.com/2009/11/surgeons-plus-burnout-equals-medical-malpractice/ An overview of New York medical malpractice, products liability and personal injury law, and the news that affects it Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:53:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: throckmorton http://www.thenewyorkmedicalmalpracticelawblog.com/2009/11/surgeons-plus-burnout-equals-medical-malpractice/comment-page-1/#comment-595 throckmorton Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:36:18 +0000 http://www.thenewyorkmedicalmalpracticelawblog.com/?p=711#comment-595 If you ask a surgeon what he considers a major error you will get a different answer that you would if you ask an attorney. For example, if I plave a patient on lovenox and they get a bleed, I would claim it is an error as I should have used SCDs on that patient. It not that either one is the right answer, its just that one had a bleed. These are retrospective "what would I have done differently". Also, what percent of errors resulted in patient harm? I tell my patients that it is human to have errors, but it is essential to do your best that your errors cause no harm. It is a crime to not learn from them. If you ask a surgeon what he considers a major error you will get a different answer that you would if you ask an attorney. For example, if I plave a patient on lovenox and they get a bleed, I would claim it is an error as I should have used SCDs on that patient. It not that either one is the right answer, its just that one had a bleed. These are retrospective “what would I have done differently”.

Also, what percent of errors resulted in patient harm? I tell my patients that it is human to have errors, but it is essential to do your best that your errors cause no harm. It is a crime to not learn from them.

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