The uses of error: Sharing with colleagues

I have made worse blunders, but with somewhat better excuses: missing infective endocarditis in a young man with hemiplegia, fever and a bruit (Osler's triad, but the cardiologist maintained it was a functional bruit), diagnosing bacterial meningitis only at autopsy (steroids had suppressed fev...

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Published inThe Lancet (British edition) Vol. 357; no. 9274; p. 2128
Main Author van Gijn, J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Elsevier Ltd 30.06.2001
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Errors
Fatalities
Physicians
Professional relationships
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Summary:I have made worse blunders, but with somewhat better excuses: missing infective endocarditis in a young man with hemiplegia, fever and a bruit (Osler's triad, but the cardiologist maintained it was a functional bruit), diagnosing bacterial meningitis only at autopsy (steroids had suppressed fever and inflammatory response), and repeating this experience with a brain abscess (the radiologist and the neurosurgeon had agreed it was a tumour).
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(00)05188-6