Failure and Rescue | The New Yorker
Scientists have given a new name to the deaths that occur in surgery
after something goes wrong—whether it is an infection or some bizarre
twist of the stomach. They call them a “failure to rescue.” More than
anything, this is what distinguished the great from the mediocre. They
didn’t fail less. They rescued more.
. . . you will take risks, and you will
have failures. But it’s what happens afterward that is defining. A
failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to
be ready for it—will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take
steps to set them right?—because the difference between triumph and
defeat, you’ll find, isn’t about willingness to take risks. It’s about
mastery of rescue.
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