Drs. Hart and Poznansky share what we can learn from hospital settings to help us all return to work. Hint: We do the best that we can based on the amount of information we have at a given time to drive decisions.

There is a basic tenet about mistakes in medicine, brought to bear by a well-known family practitioner named David Hilfiker. Dr. Hilfiker cautions that a mistake in medicine is not looking back with new information and data to say that you’d now handle a circumstance differently. A mistake in medicine is when you look back and determine that, with the exact same knowledge and set of data that you had at that time, you should have made a different decision…

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