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TED talk on doctors’ mistakes

By  | January 27, 2012
Categories: Found on the net|Reforming Healthcare

TED.com has posted physician Brian Goldman’s very engaging presentation from November 2011, “Doctors make mistakes: can we talk about that?” Goldman discusses the impossibly high expectations we all have of doctors — doctors themselves especially — and calls for a reality check. Using personal anecdotes, he argues that medical culture must change to allow physicians to admit they’re human, and that change will better equip us to deal with the inevitable mistakes that occur in medicine.

 

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Kathleen O'Malley

Kathleen O'Malley has served as the Managing Editor of the Journal of Participatory Medicine since 2010. Before that, she worked as an acquisitions editor and managed the Publishers’ Circle journal licensing program at Medscape for many years. She was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer in 2008 and continues to thrive, thanks in great part to a caring group of surgeons, physicians, nurses, social workers and fellow survivors who all practice participatory medicine.

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