Doctors need to be held accountable, since power corrupts. There must be complaints procedures and litigation, commissions of enquiry, punishment and compensation. At the same time if you do not hide or deny any mistakes when things go wrong, and if your patients and their families know that you are distressed by whatever happened, you might, if you are lucky, receive the precious gift of forgiveness. As far as I know Darren’s mother did not pursue her complaint but I fear that if she cannot find it in her heart to forgive the doctors who looked after her son in his final illness she will be
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