Pediatricians have a wide range of approaches towards disclosing
medical errors to patients and their families, and they may be less
likely to disclose this information if the errors are less obvious to
parents, according to an article released on October 6, 2008 in
, one of the
JAMA/Archives journals.
Medical errors occur in all fields of medicine. Patients generally feel
strongly that they should be told about these errors, and most doctors,
ethicists, Read the rest of this entry »

How often have you thought you were beyond spent? That the finish line was just too far away, or the big hands of the clock seemed to have stopped well before the class was supposed to be over?
Yet somehow, you did cross that finish line, or completed the grueling workout you thought would kill you. You called upon something that even now you can’t name, and you made it — maybe, even, with stamina to spare.
While I stretch and stall before swimming Read the rest of this entry »

Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) is a 777-bed nonprofit teaching
affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a founding member of Partners
HealthCare, an integrated health care delivery network. In July of
2008, the hospital opened the Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro Cardiovascular
Center, the most advanced center of its kind. BWH is committed to
excellence in patient care with expertise in virtually every
specialty of medicine and surgery. The BWH medical Read the rest of this entry »