THE SECOND VICTIM SYNDROME
This is a research held in Dow University Of Health Sciences, Karachi. SECOND VICTIM SYNDROME IN SURGEONS AND PHYSICIAN – A COMPARATIVE CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY INTRODUCTION: Albert Wu in March 2000 used the term second victim for the first time which was to bring the need to provide emotional support to medical practitioners who are involved in medical errors under consideration. (1) Most frequent cases related to medical errors occur in the ICU , leading to a high risk of physiological burden and mental stress on doctors. This burden and guilt lead to second victim syndrome (2). Improving the quality of our health care and medical practitioners involves checking up on their duty readiness and well-being of them (3). Medical errors by medical professionals are the third leading cause of death, first two being heart attack and cancer. Every day doctors meet unexpected patient outcomes that cause serious issues in their future lives (4). Peer support plays an impo...