PREMIUM Doctor’s grief: When medics meet to discuss how their patients died Book discusses the turmoil doctors go through when they lose patients or fail to achieve expected outcomes. Lifestyle Just now Listen

Medical literature says M&M sessions are one of medicine’s oldest tools for learning from adverse outcomes.

Photo credit: Shutterstock Dr Aruyaru, citing American surgeon and writer Atul Gawande, says M&M conferences have survived because no one suffers legal ramifications for whatever he or she shares.

Article Beyond the nonchalant face that doctors wear as they break news of the death of a patient, the truth is that they often suffer internal turmoil.