Talk Turkey with Your Surgeon So You Don’t End Up as Hamburger

Today’s Wall Street Journal column, The Informed Patient by Laura Landro, was a great reminder of the critical importance of patients working closely with their surgeons and physicians in order to get the proper treatments and healing:

To help patients be more pro-active, health-care groups, hospitals and medical specialty societies are offering new resources, including Web [...]

Use Checklists to Increase Your Reliability

A great article in a recent issue of The New Yorker, brought to my attention by good friend Dr. Kevin Lobdell, points out the critical importance of checklists in achieving reliability in highly complex task environments:
In 2001, though, a critical-care specialist at Johns Hopkins Hospital named Peter Pronovost decided to give it a try. [...]