Learning from Small Mistakes to Avoid Big Mistakes, Operating Rooms and Patient Harm
\xa0\nThis article caught my eye today, and it's a change of pace to think about and write about mistakes other than my own (and I made more today \u2014 but healthcare mistakes are more important).\n
\nPenn Medicine hospital cited over wrong-site surgery\n
\nIt's a mistake to perform surgery on the wrong leg. Not an \u201cunintended mistake\u201d (which is redundant). All mistakes are unintentional. Intentional harm could be called sabotage or assault....
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