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In most medical centers, physicians hold routine \u201cmorbidity and mortality\u201d conferences, where they analyze cases where patients died or were seriously injured while under medical care. In today\u2019s episode of The Strong Towns Podcast, otolaryngologist and surgeon Ryan Crane discusses how these morbidity and mortality conferences are a chance for medical practitioners to learn, through peer review, where they may have gone wrong in caring for a patient.\n\u201cWas there anything that we missed? Was there something about the patient that we didn\u2019t identify? Did we fail as surgeons?\u201d Says Dr. Crane, \u201cWhen I pick a patient to operate on and something goes wrong, or I hurt them, they come back to my office and I have to look them in the face and tell them: This is what happened, and I\u2019m sorry.\u201d\nWhere is that sense of accountability in the engineering profession, when people die in car crashes? The medical field certainly isn\u2019t perfect, but perhaps engineers should take a leaf from the doctor\u2019s book and start asking themselves: When people die on our roads, did we fail, as engineers?\nAdditional Show Notes\n\nWant to hear the Strong Towns message live? Check out our Events page to see when we\u2019re coming to a location near you!\n\n\nExplore more key Strong Towns concepts\u2014and our top content about them\u2014over at the Action Lab.\n\n\nCharles Marohn (Twitter)\n\n\nCover image source: Unsplash.