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The thesis of this chapter is that in the medical field, errors are very frequent, dangerous, and misunderstood. From the Hippocratic Oath, written between the fifth and third centuries BC, a dimension wider than negligence or incompetence has become clear: in the practice of medicine, illegal behavior is a possibility, in the strict criminal meaning of the term. The misunderstanding of the omnipresent possibility that “to err is human” is a perspective that has been implanted in the common way of seeing healthcare, with the well-known and devastating effects of defensive medicine. The best way to fight mistakes and abuses is by not ignoring or denying their existence, but by building an institutional system that allows for learning from adverse events, making abuses and mistakes visible, traceable, and burdensome. Error can become an important learning opportunity and is not just a synonym for negligence or incompetence.
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Gammone, M. (2021). Legality in Long-Term Care. Research in Progress. In: Soitu, D., Hošková-Mayerová, Š., Maturo, F. (eds) Decisions and Trends in Social Systems. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 189. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69094-6_3
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