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MH Conversations and Connections Series – Webinar
Narrative Medicine and Harm From Medical Errors: Humanizing the Patient Experience
Date & Time:
25 May 2026 (Mon) at 10:00 – 11:15 am (HKT)
24 May 2026 (Sun) at 10:00 – 11:15 pm (EST)
Format: Online Webinar via Zoom
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Abstract:
Patients often experience substandard care ranging from being subject to preventable errors with significant morbidity or even mortality, or professionalism concerns about the clinician managing their care. For medical errors, there is an ethical obligation to disclose these events to patients in a candid and timely manner. Some is known about the “second victim” effect, or the impact on the clinician responsible for the error, including difficulty concentrating, along with increased risk of burnout, PTSD, depression and suicidality. Patients are humans too, and the effect of an error is often not merely medical, but also with longstanding emotional impact. There is a need to better understand the patient experience of medical errors. This may best addressed through exposure to patient narratives. We conclude by using such narratives to glean lessons learned and suggestions for improvement of patient experiences of substandard care.
Speaker:
Dr Joyeeta G. Dastidar
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Moderator:
Dr Olivia Ngan
Research Assistant Professor
Medical Ethics & Humanities Unit
School of Clinical Medicine, HKUMed
Speaker Bio:
Dr Joyeeta G. Dastidar
Dr Joyeeta G Dastidar, MD, MBE, HEC-C obtained her undergraduate and medical education at Yale University and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, respectively. She completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Michigan. Since then, she has been on faculty of Columbia University College of Physicans & Surgeons where she works as a hospitalist and clinical ethicist at New York Presbyterian-Columbia. She obtained dual Masters degrees at Columbia University in Narrative Medicine and Bioethics and is currently also a Junior Faculty Fellow at the Heyman Center for the Humanities.
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