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Michael Sikorav MD's avatar

Very good

I actually had a patient commiting suicide on my watch

Opened a few books after that only to realise I was doing a lot of stupid stuff - and not doing essential ones

The training was indeed very lackluster, not rejecting responsability but that was and still is an issue

I try my best so that death was not in vain

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Brad Brown's avatar

Isn’t a failure to disengage the safety the most likely cause of these “misfires?“ You mentioned other sources of human error so this seemed like a strange omission.

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Glenn Sullivan's avatar

If the safety is engaged then there would be no movement of the trigger or hammer. In each case I have recorded, the patient reported fully squeezing the trigger AND hearing the hammer fall.

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Awais Aftab's avatar

That seems like a plausible explanation!

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