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Okay, hello everyone. Welcome back clinical problem solvers to a special episode of Women in Diagnosis, WDX. My name is Madelina Conti. I'm a medical student at Hofstra in New York City

and a CP solvers team member.

And today is a special WDX episode because we will be talking about mistakes and setbacks in medicine.

And I'm really grateful for the three incredible people I have here all at different levels of

training who will be joining this discussion to talk about mistakes and setbacks in medicine.

So I would love, you know, for them to introduce themselves.

Maybe we'll start with Dr. Ashley McBellellon. And you could introduce yourself and also,

you know, share why do you think it's important to talk about mistakes and setbacks in medicine?

Excellent. Well, thank you so much for the invitation. I am a diehard CPS fan. So I'm super

excited to be a part of this crew.

So yeah, as was stated, my name is Ashley McMullen.

I'm a assistant professor of medicine at UCSF

and I practice primary care over at the San Francisco VA.

I also serve in a leadership role within our UCSF.

I am residency. So I am the faculty residency diversity lead.

And yeah, why do I think it's important to talk about these things? I think, you know, this topic for me is,

you know, one that I find extremely meaningful for many reasons, but particularly because we all make mistakes.

And I think it's important to normalize that and humanize ourselves as we strive to humanize our patients.

And I think acknowledging that mistakes are made and it's okay and we can move past and learn from them and take some of the fear and shame out of it.

Yeah, no, thank you. I couldn't agree more. And I think, you know, from my own personal experiences,

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