This comic conveys the absurdity of overreliance on symptom measures and excessive testing in contemporary clinical decision making and health care practice.
AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(9):E816-817. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2020.816.
When a physician’s mother was hospitalized, she learned firsthand that not until safety is an emphasized part of everyone’s job description can we hope to reduce the great number of preventable errors taking place in our hospitals.