Nearly 9 Percent of Surgeons Made ‘Major Error’ Recently, Study Finds -

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A new study in the Annals of Surgery suggests that nearly 9 percent of surveyed surgeons believed they had made a major medical error in the past three months, with more than 70 percent of those surgeons attributing errors to individual factors such as burnout and depression, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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