When Care Goes Wrong: Recovery after Medical Injuries

When Medicine Got It Wrong: Medical Harm, Ethical Failure, and the Need for Humility

Medicine does not become trustworthy by pretending it has never been wrong. It becomes trustworthy by admitting error and placing patients above pride.

When Care Goes Wrong: Recovery after Medical Injuries

A surgery that resulted in harm to the patient, a misdiagnosis, a delay in treating a disease, and a medication error: these are all examples of a medical injury. But no matter what form medical injury takes, it is always a break in trust, a realisation that entrusting one’s body to a professional has gone wrong. Photo by Stephen Andrews from Pexels Physical injuries heal eventually, and they are often attended to first. However, what happens af…