Benevolent gestures movement makes no apologies for saying sorry
Jacob M. Appel, M.D., J.D. One of the few facts about medical errors that physicians, trial lawyers and patients can all agree upon is that there are too many of them. In the well-publicized Harvard Medical Malpractice Study (1991), researchers discovered that “adverse events due to negligence” occurred during a stunning 1% of hospital admissions. […]