Physican Disclosure of Medical Errors

Physicians More Likely To Disclose Medical Errors That Would Be Apparent To The Patient:

"While physicians in the United States and Canada generally support disclosing medical errors to patients, they vary widely in when and how they would tell patients an error had occurred, according to two articles in the August 14/28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals"

So we're not all bad guys... from what I've read, the most dominant factor is getting away from finger pointing and blame, and looking for active ways to prevent the system from promoting errors in us faulty frail human beings. Some things are set up just to promote errors... a disaster waiting to happen... and often over something so innocuous.