Prevent and Undo Mistakes in Surgery

Aniceto Baltasar

Department of Surgery, Virgen de los Lirios Hospital and San Jorge Clinic, Spain

^*Correspondance to: Aniceto Baltasar 

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Abstract:

Introduction: Reporting "wrongs" or negative results in Medicine is essential and doing so in surgery should be a moral obligation, to prevent others from making the same mistakes that can bring negative results. Prevention is better than cure!
Method: A review is made of the aggravations or negative or non-positive effects that we have found in our own surgical practice in the Surgical Service in the County Hospital of Alcoy, Alicante, Spain for 40 years, and that we publish in order to show that there is a place for surgeons to teach others, so that they avoid negative consequences.
Results: We have found 23 subjects to make a correction of the original descriptions or at least draw attention that their correction was necessary.
Discussion: Reporting positive results is important in all scientific aspects, but they are much so to communicate the negative effects of our actions, and even more so as doctors in Medicine.

Keywords:

Negative results; Non-positive results; Medicine; Surgery

Cite the Article:

Baltasar A. Prevent and Undo Mistakes in Surgery. World J Surg Surgical Res. 2019; 2: 1098.