Looks at how personal responsibility is the professions' greatest burden. A group of doctors has set out to revolutionise understanding of why medical mistakes occur, Our instinctive response, in the light of sensational cases, is to search for the guilty, but systems analysis reveals that many factors work together to result in error and it is rarely one doctor who is at fault. Contributions include David Upton, former President of the American Society of Anaesthesiology.
