Opinion: In health care, learning from errors is a painful but healing process

As a physician, I am all too aware of the risks involved in our efforts to provide the best of care. Sometimes, in efforts to provide compassionate care with the intent to heal, outcomes may not be what we wanted.
Even in hospitals. People fall. People get infections or pressure ulcers. People may not get the right medication at the right time. Harm in the course of treatment is quoted by some as the third most common cause of death in the United States.
Statistics aside, each of these events or