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Volume 351:1281-1283 September 23, 2004 Number 13
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Mistakes in the Operating Room — Error and Responsibility
Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D.

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It happened a very long time ago, when I was a third-year medical student in my first week on the surgical service of a large university hospital. One of the interns needed time off to attend to a family emergency, and I was appointed to fill in for him.

I was never quite sure whether my temporary title of "sub-intern" was something to be proud or ashamed of. I would have been pleased as punch about it had one of my professors not recently referred to interns as "the Mortimer Snerds of the medical profession." If that characterization was even . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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From the Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.



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