Medical and surgical errors/mistakes and complications.
it is important to learn through our mistakes and complications especially in medicine.
Why don't we easily post/publish our errors and complications whether diagnostic or therapeutic, medical or surgical?
Ali Akhaddar. I appreciate the problem you raise. It has ben a problem for a long time because researchers and journals have strongly tended to "worship" positive and significant findings.
Fortunately, a number of journals now explicitly state that they are willing to publish findings that are nonsignificant or "negative". Maybe, if you or others want to publish something along those lines, it's just necessary to find one of those journals and write your study up competently.
Dear Professor Robert Trevethan, thank you for your valuable suggestions.
Dear Ali, you are very welcome. I think that many areas of enquiry, not only medicine and surgery, have been disadvantaged because of the misperception that only "positive" findings are worthwhile.
Not only would journals' editors and reviewers have contributed to this problem, but I'm sure a lot of researchers have put their results in the bottom drawer or in the bin if their results weren't "impressive".
As you said up above, it's important to learn from mistakes, but it's also important to learn what simply isn't the case.
All the best if you're doing research and need to find a suitable journal as a target for publishing your research.
Robt.
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