Too Many Doctors Can Hurt a Patient in ‘Bystander Effect’
ABC:
An acutely ill man with mysterious symptoms — a nasty rash, kidney and lung failure — was admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital where he was treated by 40 of its finest doctors.
But because so many cared for him, two of the attending residents say, the 32-year-old patient actually got sicker. That is because of the so-called “bystander effect,” they say in an article published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Ervin Staub, founding director of the doctoral program in the psychology of peace and violence at University of Massachusetts, has devoted his career to the study of how a person can become an “active bystander,” the witness who is in a position to take action.
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