Gawande on US malpractice: "It’s a disaster"

Kevin

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July 9, 2007

Atul Gawande is interviewed by a newspaper in India:

Rule 1: Don’t do it the way it’s done in the US. It’s a disaster. Rule 2: If compensating for malpractice is deemed a priority, then a public fund should be established for people who have rare but serious complications from medical care due to error. Rule 3: Perfection is not possible in medicine, but our responsibility in medicine is to tell the truth about error, to measure occurrence, and to constantly work to reduce it.

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