Doctor discovers airline pilots reduced accidents by always ticking off a list of procedures before take off. He believed that surgical errors could be reduced the same way.
Are you scheduled for surgery in 2010? If so, you should know that agreeing to an operation involves some risk. This is a fact of life, and there may never be a way to reduce the risk to zero. But a study from The Harvard Medical School shows there’s a proven way to cut deaths following surgery by 40 percent.