title: Who Said Medicine Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry?
abstract: Your mother said it, your teachers reiterated it, and you've heard it countless times: Everyone makes mistakes. So why do we doctors have such difficulty admitting that? More important, how do we respond to our patients after we make mistakes?
authors.affiliation: Stanford University School of Medicine, California, USA. gord@stanford.edu.
authors.forename: Gordon O
authors.initials: GO
authors.lastname: Matheson