• Medical humanities · Dec 2010

    Reclaiming the morbidity and mortality conference: between Codman and Kundera.

    • Vinay Prasad.
    • Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA. v-prasad@md.northwestern.edu
    • Med Humanit. 2010 Dec 1; 36 (2): 108-11.

    AbstractIn recent years, a number of commentators have voiced unease about the direction and format of the Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) conference. Drawing on historical, literary and philosophical perspectives, and detailing the recent shift towards incorporating systems-based approaches to healthcare safety into the M&M, this article explores the nature and purpose of the M&M conference. It is argued that improving future health outcomes is insufficient as the goal of the conference. Instead, transcending hubris should be an endorsed objective. This paper aims to provide a definition and philosophical framework for the M&M conference.

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