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Apr 27
2009

To Err is Human: Part 2

Posted by Keshav Kulkarni in mistakes , errors

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Keshav Kulkarni
The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them
- Kimon Nicolaides (Ameerican Art Teacher 1891-1938)

Our work place is like a fish market!

We are constantly disturbed by our secretaries ("so and so doctor wants urgent report of this"), radiographers ("can you review this child's elbow x-ray?"), colleagues ("I want to show you an interesting MRI"), fellow clinicians ("can I order an urgent CTPA?"), and registrars/ residents ("I am doing barium enema and have a doubt, can you come have a look?").

We are constantly disturbed by the phone calls from all departments of the hospital, "I am a junior doctor from casualty, we need urgent CT for a patient with head injury with GCS of 12", "I am consultant urologist, can you show me the pulmonary nodule which you reported one of my patients", "I am Prof.ABCD. Can you give a lecture next week to medicine PGs regarding uses of MRI?"...trin trin...never ending!
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Apr 13
2009

To Err is Human: Part 1

Posted by Keshav Kulkarni in Reporting , mistakes , errors

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(My sincere thanks to one and all for writing encouraging words to my first series of blogs "The art and science of reporting in radiology". Here is my second series.)

Introduction

 “We all make mistakes, and we all presume we learn from our mistakes. The wise person is one who learns from others’ mistakes!” – Anonymous

We, the radiologists, fear our failures and mistakes the most. The worst fear is missing the obvious, or a life threatening finding. Medicolegal litigations exponentially increase our “fear of failure”.

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