Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Grace in Medicine

No one in healthcare wants mistakes to occur, especially when they harm patients.

However, when mistakes do occur, as humans do - honesty, transparency and the willingness to learn from mistakes have proven to be key successful ingredients when communicating with patients.

This Grand Rounds blog entry "Getting a finger from the patient" is an interesting read about grace from patients when healthcare providers do the right thing when things go wrong.

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