“I made a mistake!”: A narrative analysis of experienced physicians' stories of preventable error

RATIONALE, AIMS, AND OBJECTIVES: The complexity of healthcare systems makes errors unavoidable. To strengthen the dialogue around how physicians experience and share medical errors, the objective of this study was to understand how generalist physicians make meaning of and grow from their medical errors. METHODS: This study used a narrative inquiry approach to conduct and analyse in-depth interviews from 26 physicians from the generalist …