Every year, 2,700 surgical patients go home from the hospital with metal tools, sponges, and other objects left inside them. In 2000, fifty-seven people died as a result of these mistakes.

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    freakin’ scary!
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    that is freakin scary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    That is quite terrifying.
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    You know what’s one solution? Checklists. Basically, you come into...surgery room...
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    One potential solution to this that...brought to my attention in law school ten years ago...
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    Every year, 2,700 surgical patients go home from the hospital with metal tools, sponges, and other objects left inside...
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    For realz? Well that sucks =))
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    ……………..
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    I really wish I didn’t know this.
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    suggestion that a financial incentive is required. Are significant, non-economic damage awards really
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    Just reminded me...Dr. Preston Burke’s mistake while he was still a resident in Seattle...
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