You Can't Make This Stuff Up

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Features| September 2022 You Can't Make This Stuff Up Steven L. Shafer, MD, FASA Steven L. Shafer, MD, FASA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar ASA Monitor September 2022, Vol. 86, 29–30. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000874264.44654.fa Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Search Site Citation Steven L. Shafer; You Can't Make This Stuff Up. ASA Monitor 2022; 86:29–30 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000874264.44654.fa Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll PublicationsASA Monitor Search Advanced Search Topics: internship and residency, nurses, medical residencies, jaw thrust, infusion procedures, languages The following first-person accounts are selected from about 200 such stories I received after asking anesthesiologists to share their experiences with weaponized incident reporting (asamonitor.pub/3Okyc5s). I have not verified these accounts. However, the common thread of the reports I received is that physicians often feel unfairly targeted by event reporting. There is a perception that incident reporting is used to settle scores and correct the perceived power imbalance in medicine. I have edited the reports to ensure anonymity and focus on critical elements in the narrative. There are many names for incident reporting systems. I've chosen to call them “SAFE reports.” That is the name used at Stanford. I like it because of the uncomfortable irony in the name, as shown in the first-person accounts below. “I received a SAFE report as a resident for ‘rolling my eyes’ at a nurse. I don't even remember the incident. However,... You do not currently have access to this content.