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Ryan Crane: Malpractice and Accountability in Engineering—A Surgeon’s Take
Ryan Crane: Malpractice and Accountability in Engineering—A Surgeon’s Take
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70 minutes
Released:
Apr 25, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
In most medical centers, physicians hold routine “morbidity and mortality” conferences, where they analyze cases where patients died or were seriously injured while under medical care. In today’s episode of The Strong Towns Podcast, otolaryngologist and surgeon Ryan Crane discusses how these morbidity and mortality conferences are a chance for medical practitioners to learn, through peer review, where they may have gone wrong in caring for a patient.
“Was there anything that we missed? Was there something about the patient that we didn’t identify? Did we fail as surgeons?” Says Dr. Crane, “When I pick a patient to operate on and something goes wrong, or I hurt them, they come back to my office and I have to look them in the face and tell them: This is what happened, and I’m sorry.”
Where is that sense of accountability in the engineering profession, when people die in car crashes? The medical field certainly isn’t perfect, but perhaps engineers should take a leaf from the doctor’s book and start asking themselves: When people die on our roads, did we fail, as engineers?
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“Was there anything that we missed? Was there something about the patient that we didn’t identify? Did we fail as surgeons?” Says Dr. Crane, “When I pick a patient to operate on and something goes wrong, or I hurt them, they come back to my office and I have to look them in the face and tell them: This is what happened, and I’m sorry.”
Where is that sense of accountability in the engineering profession, when people die in car crashes? The medical field certainly isn’t perfect, but perhaps engineers should take a leaf from the doctor’s book and start asking themselves: When people die on our roads, did we fail, as engineers?
Additional Show Notes
Want to hear the Strong Towns message live? Check out our Events page to see when we’re coming to a location near you!
Explore more key Strong Towns concepts—and our top content about them—over at the Action Lab.
Charles Marohn (Twitter)
Cover image source: Unsplash.
Released:
Apr 25, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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