Complications Quote by Nancy Berlinger

The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes,

— Lucian Leape

“The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.”

— Marcel Proust

Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories…

— Jeffrey Kluger

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients

— Carl Levin

“It’s never one thing that leads to a tragic accident, she was sure she’d read once—though she couldn’t say where. It’s usually seven things—seven…

— Lisa Unger

The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to the outcome.

— Samuel Butler

“But at the most basic level, doctors need to be able to come forward with their errors and near-misses, otherwise we will never know…

— Danielle Ofri

The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.

— Evan Esar

“Many, if not most, therapeutic errors are assessment errors; that is, they are therapeutic responses based on faulty understanding and assessment of the problem…

— Marsha M. Linehan

A hospital patient can expect one medical error every single day of any hospital stay. Malpractice suits are numerous enough that one may reasonably…

— Andrew Saul

When a doctor makes a mistake, it's best to bury the subject.

— Woody Allen

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

— Franz Kafka