Hilfiker in Perspective

Medical error remains a troubling and complex issue. Just less than 40 years ago, David Hilfiker provided ground-breaking descriptions of clinician error in a landmark article in a leading medical journal, “Facing Our Mistakes,”1 and subsequent book, Healing the Wounds.2 Hilfiker reflected on his medical mistakes and his inability to cope with their emotional consequences. Against the historical backdrop of a culture of silence and denial around error, Hilfiker’s pioneering “error confession” has since been regarded as a keystone of error discourse.
Source: Mayo Clinic Proceedings - Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Tags: Perspectives and controversies Source Type: research