Herb Denenberg

A Safe-Surgery Checklist Can Save Your Life


This column is designed to save lives by giving readers a safe-surgery checklist with the kind of advice that is a proven saver of lives. When you go into a hospital for surgery, don’t assume that things will go as they should. You will encounter serious mistakes on an almost routine and epidemic basis, so be prepared to protect yourself. Here’s an example to show you how the checklist can save lives and how mistakes are likely, almost inevitable, if you don’t monitor what’s going on.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 3:57 AM EST

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November 17th, 2009

A Safe-Surgery Checklist Can Save Your Life

This column is designed to save lives by giving readers a safe-surgery checklist with the kind of advice that is a proven saver of lives. When you go into a hospital for surgery, don’t assume that things will go as they should. You will encounter serious mistakes on an almost routine and epidemic basis, so be prepared to protect yourself. Here’s an example to show you how the checklist can save lives and how mistakes are likely, almost inevitable, if you don’t monitor what’s going on.
November 6th, 2009

Obama Botching National Flu Emergency

The Obama Administration and the federal bureaucracy have demonstrated they can’t handle a single healthcare problem, even one declared to be a national emergency. So, how can we trust them to restructure our health delivery system, do so in an unseemly rush, and accomplish what they promise? We can’t. If America is foolish enough to go along with the Obama Administration’s insane health-care proposals, built on a foundation of incompetence, half-baked proposals, radicalism, socialism, and lies, perhaps it deserves its destruction, which President Barack Obama will guarantee if not stopped cold now and in an hurry.
 

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