Charles L. Bosk > Quotes

“Forgive and Remember tells a different story. This narrative shows how seriously mistakes—especially those understood as normative and quasi-normative—are treated during residency training.”
― Charles L. Bosk, Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure

“How does the surgeon cope with the knowledge that his clumsiness, forgetfulness, or tardiness contributed to another’s death and/or suffering? How does the individual surgeon accept this responsibility and yet not shrink from future action? All groups”
― Charles L. Bosk, Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure

“breaches may be overappreciated with the consequent cost of needless self-laceration and punctured self-esteem.”
― Charles L. Bosk, Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure

“would find that residency has grown more stressful at the same time that the faculty claim that training programs have been scourged of past abusive practices.”
― Charles L. Bosk, Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure