PSYCH 072: Medical Error
This chapter explores one of the most challenging and important realities in healthcare: medical error. Despite the dedication, expertise, and good intentions of clinicians, mistakes occur. Understanding why they happen—and how systems can reduce their occurrence—is essential to improving patient safety and the quality of psychiatric care.
Medical error is often viewed through the lens of individual failure, yet the chapter emphasises that errors typically arise from the interaction between human limitations and system vulnerabilities. Fatigue, cognitive bias, communication breakdowns…
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