Legally protecting apologies shrinks the clinician-patient relationship

BMJ. 2019 Sep 16:366:l5472. doi: 10.1136/bmj.l5472.

Authors

Rick Iedema¹, Jane Sandal², Mary Adams²

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Team-Based Practice and Learning in Health Care, Health Schools, Henriette Raphael House (Rm 2.18A)-Guy's Campus, King's College London, London SE1 1UL, UK.
² Department of Women and Children's Health, School of Life Course Science, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK.

PMID: 31527072
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.l5472

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Disclosure*
Humans
Medical Errors
Patient Safety*

Grants and funding

HS&DR/17/99/85/DH_/Department of Health/United Kingdom