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Malpractice Verdicts Often Favor Physicians

Physicians come out on the winning end of 80% of malpractice claims that end in jury verdicts, according to researchers at Massachusetts General Hos...

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A CT-scan-based, laxative-free "virtual colonoscopy" may be as effective as standard colonoscopy in finding potentially cancerous polyps, according ...

Wrong-Site Prevention Video Shows the Right Way

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Archive > April, 2010 Vol. XI, No. 4

Editor's Page

Checklists, Because We're Ignorant and Inept

Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

In the 21 1/2 years that acclaimed writer and surgeon Atul Gawande, MD, has been using the surgical safety checklist, he says he hasn't gotten through a week of surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston where the checklist didn't catch a problem that improved patient safety. That surprises — and humbles — the checklist's greatest advocate.

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