As a medical student, you witness a resident doctor take a patient's chart from their room, toss it in the trash, and replace it with another one. As the resident passes by, she tells you that she had made a mistake on the original chart and that she replaced it with a chart containing the correct information. She tells you not to worry because it had only been about ten minutes since the erroneous chart was placed. What would you do?

In this scenario, my main concern would be ensuring that the patient has received the correct course of treatment. Although the resident doctor was able to correct her error in a short amount of time, it is still possible that someone like a nurse has seen the erroneous chart and had initiated an inappropriate course of treatment for the patient.
In this scenario, I would speak with the resident doctor and ask her if she knows which nurse was ass... (+ 106 words)