I was a third-year medical student in 1999 when the landmark report titled “To Err is Human” was released by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), unveiling the uncomfortable truth about the fallibility of physicians and our medical system. I remember it vividly. The publication’s scandalous revelation that nearly 100,000 preventable deaths occurred in hospitals each
Who will heal the physician? originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
