How Many Doctors Hide Their Medical Mistakes? No one is perfect, and being human means making a mistake from time to time. Furthermore, few people enjoy admitting when they’re wrong. This is particularly true in the workplace, where a big mistake can mean a loss of trust, reputation, and even your job. For this reason, many workers are reluctant to admit when they have cost their company a big client, or when an error they made resulted in a huge loss. But what about doctors? When medical professionals make mistakes, people can end up seriously hurt or even deceased. In the most catastrophic cases, a patient dies because a doctor engaged in medical malpractice. When a person’s life is on the line, how important is it for doctors to admit when they deviated from the standard of care?