it's difficult to conduct an effective mortality & morbidity meeting in a culture where neither human life nor truth are terribly valued. today we reviewed the case of a preeclamptic woman who died on the maternity ward two weeks ago. no one took any responsibility, no mistakes were identified, no lessons were learned. i was somewhere between frustrated and furious. but is it at all reasonable to insist on my way of viewing patient care, when most of my colleagues have experienced and understood life in such a fundamentally different way? where do i compromise? where do i even start?