![]() ![]() Any operation, regardless of its technical requirements, places a patient at risk of life-threatening infection, among other harms. However, failure in the care of patients is-at best-to not make good on a promise to heal at worst it is to do harm-potentially mortal-to another human. I am unsure what it means to fail as a professor of history, and I do not endeavor to minimize the travails of other professions. He was not a physician-he taught history. ‘So, get out there and fail!’ he concluded with gusto. Failure is chic, failure is trending! Twenty years ago, my university commencement speaker orated the experiential virtues of failure as being essential to our growth as individuals and as a society. One of my favorite coffee brands states plainly on its container that “things that matter in life” include “never being afraid to fail”. In various forms, failure is approached from the perspectives of parents (let your children fail!), leaders (allow your employees to fail!), and self-help (let yourself fail and learn from it!). In recent years a spate of popular writing has focused on the merits of failure ( 1- 6). Email: 22 January 2019 Accepted: 11 February 2019 Published: 20 February 2019. Sarcoma & Connective Tissue Oncology, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA. Policy of Dealing with Allegations of Research MisconductĬorrespondence to: Eric R. ![]() Policy of Screening for Plagiarism Process. ![]()
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