AIRS

On our way to meet an overseas visitor, KM asked if I had heard of the recent incident of AIRS.

I had not, and KM gave me the details. The story - keeping all parties anonymous - goes like this:

Our colleagues from another department did not make the correct diagnosis on a particular patient (who was under the care by us). Seriously they did nothing wrong - based on the data available to them at the moment, they have no reason to be suspicious. The correct diagnosis revealed itself a few days later - after some further investigations ordered by a meticulous physician.

The problem was: one of us report the "incident" to the AIRS.

For those who are not familiar with our system, AIRS stands for Adverse Incident Reporting System. It is a kind of mechanism so that we could report medical incidents (for example, wrong drug dosage being dispensed) that could adversely affect patients' well-being.

Of course our friends from the other department go mad - who wouldn't ?