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Health workers often do not disclose errors, however, for fear they could be sued or fired.
A gap exists between recommendations to disclose errors to patients and current practice.
In fact, even if you can afford to pay the bill, a careful review is a good idea, if only to disclose errors and excesses that drive up the cost of medical care for all of us.
The White House has indicated that it favors projects that would encourage doctors to disclose errors early and apologize, and those that would require a suing patient to get a certificate from a panel of experts attesting that the suit had merit.
This lends weight to the importance of the duty to disclose errors and supports findings within medical literature [ 13].
The ethical analysis and conclusion about the question whether to disclose errors in psychotherapy or not critically depends on the underlying ethical theory.
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Most psychotherapists reported that they preferred to an disclose error to the patient.
Our results suggest that medical personnel in Korea are relatively reluctant to disclose error or assert their different opinions with others.
In fact, all the medical staff gave an affirmative response to the following question: "In the case of an error, do you think that the clinician responsible has the right to adequate psychological and emotional support from the clinical centre managing system?" Demographic factors of age, sex and medical profession have no significant influence on the physician's propensity to disclose error.
Hospitals have also found that disclosing errors to patients and offering early settlements reduces the costs and frequency of litigation.
The newly disclosed errors did not affect power supply, but they did nothing to improve the company's reputation for reliability in a different area.
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