{"id":5507,"date":"2013-11-09T08:25:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T14:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5507"},"modified":"2013-11-09T08:25:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T14:25:48","slug":"why-doctors-stay-mum-about-mistakes-their-colleagues-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5507","title":{"rendered":"Why Doctors Stay Mum About Mistakes Their Colleagues Make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/why-doctors-stay-mum-about-mistakes-their-colleagues-make\">Marshall Alan<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Patients don\u2019t always know when their doctor has made a medical error. But other doctors do.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;A few years ago I called a Las Vegas surgeon because I had hospital data showing which of his peers had high rates of surgical injuries \u2013 things like removing a healthy kidney, accidentally puncturing a young girl\u2019s aorta during an appendectomy and mistakenly removing part of a woman\u2019s pancreas.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;I wanted to see if he could help me investigate what happened. But the surgeon surprised me.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Before I could get a question out, he started rattling off the names of surgeons he considered the worst in town. He and his partners often had to correct their mistakes \u2014 \u201ccleanup\u201d surgeries, he said. He didn\u2019t need a database to tell him which surgeons made the most mistakes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall Alan: Patients don\u2019t always know when their doctor has made a medical error. But other doctors do.&nbsp;&nbsp;A few years ago I called a Las Vegas surgeon because I had hospital data showing which of his peers had high rates of surgical injuries \u2013 things like removing a healthy kidney, accidentally puncturing a young girl\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}