AHRQ Patient Safety Network: Another surgeon's error: must you tell the patient?

AHRQ Patient Safety Network


Another surgeon's error: must you tell the patient?

Moffatt-Bruce SD, Denlinger CE, Sade RM. Ann Thorac Surg. 2014;98:396-401.

A general consensus exists that physicians should disclose their own errors, but the responsibility of reportingcolleagues' errors to patients and their families is not as clearly understood. This commentary uses a case example to illustrate perspectives for both sides of the debate surrounding the ethics of this issue.

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