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and learn from it so that other patients and other operative teams
would be safe. An opportunity arose to share my story in the New
England Journal of Medicine (
tinyurl.com/2f4l4fw
), and I was all for it
On the eve of publication I wasn't sure how it would be received.
Would patients avoid
me and doctors stop
referring to me?
Would I lose the
respect of my col-
leagues? Instead, my
forthright discussion
of the incident drew
widespread praise;
some surgeons called
me courageous for
risking my reputation
for the sake of patient
safety. Clearly many
are ready for this
change.
The real benefit of
going on my "wrong
procedure world
tour" (the set of hos-
pital and conference
appearances that
ensued) to talk about
my error was to drive
home the point that
humans err and that
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