Physician causes harm
An MRI report of the C-Spine and T-Spine has totally missed a large tumour of the lung.
Because the family physician has no way of looking at the images and is not trained in reading MRIs, a totally different path of referrals has been made with lengthy delays. When the diagnosis is finally made months after the original MRI, there is already bone destruction. How do you tell the patient about this mistake?
Category:
physician – patient
What's happening?
Feb 22 2012 (All day)
Nov 12 2011 - 9:30am
Comments
Combination of breaking bad news and admitting an error
This one covers both these bases. Both of these topics are important. If we took this one on, it might present an opportunity for examining the homologies between our empathic practice theory, and other schemas for accomplishing these tasks, like FIFE and SPIKES. If we think back to our educational objectives for this project, this was one of them.
Medical Errors
Our Web site has a scenario in regard to this. I wouldn't duplicate it and we are happy to link to your site for additional scenarios.