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Doctors Who Do Harm Research shows that doctors disciplined by their state medical boards were three times as likely to have exhibited unprofessional behavior when they were medical students. 'The tradition of professionalism must begin in medical school,' says study author Dr. Maxine Papadakis, a professor of clinical medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. '
Latrogenic events among newborns are frequent and often preventable This study allows the cause, severity, and preventability of iatrogenic events in neonatology to be defined," the authors said. "A third of all iatrogenic events and more than a quarter of severe iatrogenic events were preventable. Iatrogenic events seem to be less preventable in neonates that in adults and children, in whom 40-60% of adverse events are preventable
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