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Everyone’s going to make a mistake

Medicine and Science from The BMJ

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Reflec Is Sometimes Appropriate and Sometimes Not

Doctors watch legal dramas and crime thrillers, they become obsessed with the way that the legal system works. So i think a lot of doctors will feel if they make a mistake, you know, they're going to end up being taken out of the shoes and asked really difficult questions. And people are always going to be trying to catch them out. That's like the sort of mediate image of what the law in the legal system is like when you do something wrong - you're a criminal. I wonder if maybe that's the reason why a lot of Doctors go in with not having trust in, even in their defence organization,. because they think someone's going to try and catch them out

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