Our system is such that if a doctor admits a mistake, it’s likely an ambulance chaser will show up and make him wished he hadn’t.
That actually is not true. In many cases, the manner in which the doctor discloses the mistake has a lot to do with whether the family sues or not. I know a gynecologist who did a hysterectomy on a perfectly healthy woman as a result of flawed lab tests. When she told the woman very apologetically what had happened, the woman told her it was okay, mistakes happen, and she did not sue.