noun General Slang

Blamestorming

· noun · medical

A meeting held purely to work out whose fault the disaster was.

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A group sit-down after something's gone properly wrong, where the stated agenda is 'lessons learned' but the actual agenda is pinning the blame on someone before management does. Big in hospitals after a serious adverse event, but the term's leaked into corporate life too.

“M&M meeting at eight, but let's be honest, it's a blamestorming session about the missed tamponade.”
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Blamestorming In A Sentence

M&M meeting at eight, but let's be honest, it's a blamestorming session about the missed tamponade.

Origin & Usage

Pun on 'brainstorming'; popularised in late-90s office and medical slang.

Variants blame-storming
Tags #medical#hospital#corporate#meetings

People Also Ask

What does 'blamestorming' mean?

Blamestorming is a meeting held purely to work out whose fault a disaster was.

How do you use 'blamestorming' in a sentence?

You'd say, 'The launch flopped, so now we're stuck in a blamestorming session all afternoon.'

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