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... study discovers burnout and depression are associated with medical errors by American surgeons. The self-reported mistakes were human- ... percent or 700 reported making recent medical errors that they considered major. All participating surgeons ... hours for practicing surgeons may have little impact on limiting errors unless burnout is also addressed. They point out that the study has its limitations ...

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... error on the job, according to the largest study to date on physician burnout. The new findings suggest that the mental well-being of the surgeon is associated with a higher rate of self-reported medical errors, something that may undermine patient safety more than the fatigue that is often blamed for many of the medical mistakes...

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ROCHESTER, Minn., Nov 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Medical errors self-reported by U.S. surgeons are strongly related to both burnout and depression, researchers found. In a study that promised confidentiality, nearly 9 percent of U.S. surgeons responding said they made a major error in the three months prior to being surveyed. The study, ...

The above is the headline from a Wall Street Journal article on November 23, 2009 reporting on a study that surveyed surgeons on their perceptions of job burn-out. A similar article titled, “Burned Out, Depressed Surgeons More Likely to Commit More Major Medical Errors” also appeared on November 23 in Science Daily. Both articles were

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... Annals of Surgery finds that 9% of surgeons admit to a “major medical error” in the past three months. So let's see, that means in a year ... major medical mistakes? Or is it just the same 9% making errors all year long? Is it any wonder that more than 100,000 people are killed each year in hospitals due to medical errors and failures? Obviously the culture of medicine has flaws that are ...

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Connecticut law requires hospitals to tell the state Department of Public Health when certain medical errors harm patients. But some tweaks that were made to the law five years ago mean that hospitals report far fewer incidents, and those incidents that are reported are often kept secret from the public, the ...

Journalists: For links to web-video and audio files, see the bottom of this post. Major medical errors self-reported by American surgeons are strongly related to both burnout and depression. Those findings appear today in the online edition of Annals of Surgery. The Mayo Clinic-led study included collaborators from Johns Hopkins and the American College of Surgeons. In

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