Today has been an enlightening day in learning about patient safety. My favorite part of today was Laura’s lectures on transparency and just culture, which I found to be really informative. As a medical student, I believe that we find ourselves sometimes in a confusing position because we either 1) believe that because we are on the bottom of the totem pole, we are not free to always share our thoughts or 2) we simply assume our residents or supervising attendings will report events about patients that we have been following. I think back to this one patient that I always lament over. Back in April 2022, I was doing my psych clerkship in a child psych in-patient unit. We were consulted for a 17 y/o female for altered mental status in the ED. When we visited the girl, we soon realized that neurology had not been consulted first, but… Continue reading