It's about time: Surgical checklists

My husband, Ron, has 50 years in aviation and is a retired captain from the world’s largest airline - and more the last several years has been asking the question: if pilots have to use checklists, then why don’t surgeons?

You would think, considering the rising costs of malpractice and the human cost of surgical mistakes, this would be a - uh, no brainer. But it hasn’t been until recently.

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