Students, residents share patient safety lessons

It was a simple mistake she's still ashamed she made, but luckily when Elizabeth Butler, BA, a fourth-year medical student at the University of Massachusetts, took the stitches out of the wrong woman, the patient was not severely injured. Although Butler has followed up with the patient through outpatient visits and knows she is doing well, the event haunts her. Still, she decided to take the time to write down what happened. Doing so gave her the chance to reflect, learn, and share her story with experts in her field from across the country.

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