'Conducive environment needed to admit medical errors'

Reputed doctors at a conference on Saturday here said that medical errors can prove very costly to patients but suppressing them could be even more dangerous.

"Unless a conducive environment is created when errors can be expressed, it will be difficult to take corrective measures," they cautioned speaking at the Medicon International 2018 here.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr Deepak Dwarkanath, Vice President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, said, "In this profession, no one goes to work to cause errors, rather all try the best for the patient. But if there is any error, then it should be dealt with honesty, openness and candour."
Prof. F E Udwadia, Consultant Physician and Director of the Intensive Care Unit at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai, said "While technology changes rapidly, knowledge accumulates from the day of entering the medical school and continues till the end of the career."