How Much Internal Denial Do You Have When You Make a Medical Error?

There's this feeling that like physicians have to be perfect and there's a superhuman stuff. And I tell you, I don't think I ever took a sick day in all of residency in most of my attending years because of that culture. But yet there's this a cultureized shame around I'm not perfect. It's no other profession. So why would why would patients want that for doctors? But we seem to think they do.

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