No lawyer speaking for the health care community would ever permit an apology like this in this country. Medical Journal Apologizes for Distress Discover magazine: Anaesthesia and Intensive Care is an Australian medical journal. The latest issue, just published online, contains a remarkable -- and possibly even unique -- pair of letters. These letters take the form of apologies for the distress caused by the publication of an article. The distressing article appeared in November last year: Fatal rhabdomyolysis following volatile induction in a six-year-old boy with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. It was a case report written by doctors R. S. Simpson and K. Van of Queensland, Australia. The journals editor, Neville Gibbs, said, This apology is to the parents and other family members of the patient. We now recognize that the contents of the letter and the circumstances in which it has been published have caused considerable distress. This is primarily because the contents gave an incorrect impression of several aspects of the patients presentation. blogs.discovermagazine/neuroskeptic/2014/02/01/apology-distress/#.Uxk6PvmaR8E
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