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Survey: Nearly half of physicians would not report impaired colleague
Quality Improvement Monitor, December 7, 2007
A new survey has found that almost half of all physicians say they have failed to report an impaired or incompetent colleague or a serious medical error, according to the Boston Globe.
More than one third of doctors, the paper reported, would order an unnecessary MRI scan for an insistent patient, according to study published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
"Given all of the work that has been put into patient safety, the fact that half of doctors don't report impaired colleagues, I find absolutely astonishing," Eric Campbell, PhD, assistant professor at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Health Policy and the lead author of the study, told the Globe.
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