As human beings nobody is perfect. Everybody makes mistakes but in most cases that’s how we learn and grow as a person. Even though errors are usually a bad thing, they are very common and accepted as a natural part of peoples lives. So if errors and mishandled situations are an everyday thing and impossible to avoid, why is it unacceptable for doctors to make errors? Why is it that if a doctor makes one mistake their reputation is shattered? In all honesty, it should not. If a doctor makes an error and wants to confess or confide in someone else of what error they may have committed then they should have that opportunity. Instead medical professionals are usually not given even the slightest chance to do so resulting …show more content…
In other professions stakes are not as high. If someone who works in an office messes up and fails to submit a paper at the right time they usually will lose some money or possibly their job but for a doctor its completely different. If a doctor messes up then that could be the different between life and death. Dr. Goldman, a very successful medical physician, went on to emphasize the fact that what one man sees as something simple or slight another could see as something more drastic. He emphasized this in his video “Doctors Make Mistakes. Can We Talk About That?” Dr. Goldman stressed that mistakes in the medical profession are impossible to avoid, and it is more so a matter of when and …show more content…
Barbara a nurse explains her interaction with a patient and then having to deal with his death as well as being called a murderer by other people in society. In her article, Barbara Huttman had given in to her patients request to finally just let them die rather than trying to save them and she was forced to live with the consequences as well as guilt. Exact situations just like Barbara’s occur every day in hospitals across the world. The nurse or medical professional attempts to do what is morally right but is not considered socially acceptable and is forced to live with consequences for the rest of their lives without even having the opportunity to speak about their situation another person. This can result in stress and even depression possibly and can cause errors in hospitals to happen more