Understanding Second Victim Syndrome In Healthcare Providers
It is not uncommon for a health care provider to experience extreme distress after medical error or after an adverse event occurs to a patient. Dr. Albert Wu has coined the term “second victim syndrome” for this phenomenon. In this interview, Dr. Wu discusses what second victim syndrome is, how it can be recognized and what led him to examine this condition among health care providers. In addition, Dr. Wu describes the development of the training program, RISE (Resilience in …
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