Letters
Safety of candour
Legally protecting apologies shrinks the clinician-patient relationship
BMJ 2019; 366 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l5472 (Published 16 September 2019) Cite this as: BMJ 2019;366:l5472
- Rick Iedema, professor-director1,
- Jane Sandal, professor of social science and women’s health2,
- Mary Adams, senior research fellow2
- 1Centre for Team-Based Practice and Learning in Health Care, Health Schools, Henriette Raphael House (Rm 2.18A)—Guy’s Campus, King’s College London, London SE1 1UL, UK
- 2Department of Women and Children’s Health, School of Life Course Science, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK
- rick.iedema{at}kcl.ac.uk
Leung and Porter’s article on candour and apologising promotes a legal angle on incident disclosure rather than a human one.1 You could (and many do) argue that the legal perspective is the one that matters because that’s where big sums of money and reputations are at stake. Others regard this “legalisation” of …
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