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Article: Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure.(Book Review)
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- Social Forces
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- September 1, 2004
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Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure. By Charles L. Bosk. University of Chicago Press, 2003. 2d ed. 276 pp. Cloth, $18.00; paper, $14.00.
It is a rare opportunity for an author to reflect on a book nearly a quarter century after it is published and make some important corrections and caveats for the new edition. It is even rarer when a reviewer is able to review the book for a second time, with the luxury of two decades of hindsight and the light of an author's new revelations.
When Charles Bosk's Forgive and Remember was published in 1979 it was very well received and quickly became a standard for the study of medical error. In many ways the ...