{-}Martha’s rule: an undeniable right to a second medical opinion

The reason that Martha’s rule has an unstoppable momentum is that everyone who has worked in healthcare knows that each one of us has made mistakes. Some of those errors live on in our memories longer than others. The ones that linger are those where we know we might have done something different, and probably thought of doing something different, but didn’t; where we hesitated because of a lack of confidence in our clinical ability or rushed to intervene through hubris; where we dreaded the humiliating response we might get from a senior colleague; or where we didn’t pay enough attention to a patient because of how busy or fatigued we were.We rightly consider error in clinical practice to be a system failure, but our individual decisions and actions contribute to that systemic response. That’s why the principle of Martha’s rule—which empowers people to request a review of their or…
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