Amazing to note the difference in safety records between healthcare, where doctors don't die alongside their patients; https://twitter.com/c7rky/status/941246786315964416 … ..and aviation, where pilots may well die alongside their passengers.https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/947868718020939776 …
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Replying to @C7RKY
I don’t think that’s a fair comparison to make. Healthcare isn’t my forte now, but
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Replying to @jumbo747pilot @MartinBromiley
I've no doubt Martin will have brought many positive changes to the debate. But I think the elephant in the room here is candour. What pilot would be foolish enough to cover up a potentially fatal error? The personal consequence is only too apparent. Opposite true for clinicians.
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It's also because healthcare isn't like flying a plane despite the fact we are endlessly told it is.
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Replying to @alisonleary1 @C7RKY and
And please remember that safety is relative, not absolute. Risk can be reduced, sure, but aircraft still crash. Problems will not “never happen again” in healthcare.
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Have come to conclusion that the parallels with aviation are unhelpful. Different work; different culture
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Replying to @alisonleary1 @MarkGaze and
Alison although the work may be different the “just culture” should be helpful to both. An atmosphere that doesn’t judge mistakes as failure but opportunity to learn should be something that’s embraced, surely?
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Replying to @jumbo747pilot @alisonleary1 and
When individual doctors are convicted of manslaughter because of deaths caused by gross system failures, the concept of a no-blame culture seems a little fraudulent.
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Appreciate that viewpoint Mark - it's a well discussed topic. But one has to also appreciate that duty of candour is no less fraudulent in the eyes of complainants. Both need fixing if we are to avoid future pts/relatives feeling prosecution is their best chance of truth, imho.
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