A Conversation with … Charles L. Bosk PhD Expert on Surgical Education and Medical Error and Author of Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure

摘要

Perhaps you remember the book (or the movie) Gorillas in the Mist [6]? In it, primatologist Dian Fossey PhD, spent years in the rainforests of Africa living alongside the great apes, observing their social behaviors. In this month’s “A Conversation with…”, I visit with Charles L. Bosk PhD, a sociologist whose first book might have been called Surgeons in the Mist. It isn’t (it’s called Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure [1]), but it has many things in common with Dian Fossey’s classic work: Dr. Bosk spent 18 months eating, rounding, and commiserating with surgical residents and their attendings in the 1970s with the goal of learning something about their (our) social structure.