Quotes About Accountability

Are doctors who make mistakes villains? No, because then we all are.

No, the more familiar and widely dangerous issue is a kind of silent disengagement, the consequence of specialized technicians sticking narrowly to their domains. "That's not my problem" is possibly the worst thing people can think, whether they are starting an operation, taxiing an airplane full of passengers down a runway, or building a thousand-foot-tall skyscraper.

That's not my problem" is possibly the worst thing people can think

Equally troubling, people seem happy to let us off the hook.

Even good doctors can go bad, and when they do, colleagues tend to be almost entirely unequipped to do anything about them.

Our duties depend on our level of training, but we're never entirely on our own: there's always an attending, who oversees our decisions.

How can this be justified?

How could anyone who makes a mistake of that magnitude be allowed to practice medicine?

We want to see them punished.

When things go wrong, the attending is expected to take full responsibility. It

At the M & M, the burden of responsibility falls on the attending.

when problems were identified, the follow-through was abysmal.

I offered no excuses. I promised to be better prepared for such cases and to be quicker to ask for help.

Embracing a culture of teamwork and discipline is.

Neff's philosophy is, as he put it, "hard on behavior but soft on the person.

that doctors avoid them in order to cover up evidence of malpractice.

I was shocked to read that Lord Ferrers, a Home Office minister, when booked for speeding and presented with a £40 fixed penalty with three penalty points, them wrote to the Suffolk police to thank them for catching him. There is a sickness in England. If his lordship appreciates punishment so much, it was unkind just to fine him. He should have been caned, with his trousers down, by the side of the road.

No woman is responsible for altering the psyche of her oppressor, even when that psyche is embodied in another woman.

Feelings are not wrong, but you are accountable for the behavior you use to satisfy those feelings.

If I participate, knowingly or otherwise, in my sister's oppression and she calls me on it, to answer her anger with my own only blankets the substance of our exchange with reaction. It wastes energy. And yes, it is very difficult to stand still and to listen to another woman's voice delineate an agony I do not share, or one to which I myself have contributed.

I give you sugar for sugar And salt for salt If you can't get along with me It's your own damn fault.

Any damage that's been done, you have to fix yourself because it needs fixing and there is nobody else to do the work. Blame may well be justified, but it's not going to move you forward in your life.

Nobody's trying to kill you, Deirdre. You're killing yourself.

Avoid self-pity by taking responsibility for everything that happens to you, even if somebody else is at fault. By taking responsibility, I don't mean play doormat. I mean, repair yourself. Move forward. Move on. Then, only then, see if you can wrangle some empathy.