Health Care Professional Mental Health and Supporting the Second Victim – Can Organizations Across the World Do Better?

“Virtually every practitioner knows the sickening realisation of making a bad mistake.”1 In 2000, Albert Wu illustrated the damaging psychological consequences following medical errors devising the term “second victim”, describing the emotional turmoil experienced by a healthcare professiona l. The patient and family are the first victims, and the healthcare professional is the second.
Source: The American Journal of Medicine - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Commentary Source Type: research