How do we go back to work? One hospital’s procedures show the way

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…