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Living with cancer: not talking about medical mistakes.

Gubar S. New York Times. October 30, 2014.

This newspaper article describes how surgical complications, health care–associated infections, and ineffective patient–provider communication contributed to a patient's experience with harm and suggests that transparency around the incident and preoperative patient briefings could have improved the situation.

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