Professional failure: how do oncologists feel it?
Cet article analyse le ressenti et le vécu de 500 oncologues ayant connu un échec professionnel avec des patients
Professional failure has been a well-known topic for medical doctors for several years [ 1]. Nevertheless, no data on the oncologists’ perception of their professional failure and no data focusing on the perception of a physician’s failure after a colleague’s success and vice versa exist in literature. Therefore, we sent to 500 oncologists working all over the world the following anonymous survey in order to evaluate how the oncologists feel the professional failure: “In your opinion, which of the following experiences is more disappointing on the professional and psychological point of view? 1 Obtaining with a patient only a partial success, after the failure of previous colleagues. 2 Obtaining with a patient a failure followed by …