
You 2.0: Check Yourself
Hidden Brain
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How to Prevent Cather Infections
A year after josie king's death, her mother asked peter a very difficult question. Could you tell me that my daughter is less likely to die now than a year ago? And i looked at her and reflected and said, i can't. The work really accelerated back in two thousand one after an adorable little girl died of a cather infection. Those infections killed more people than breast or prostate cancer a year. It was a very big problem. There were lots of reasons for doctors and nurses to ignore it. Peter told nurses that they had the authority to stop physicians when they tried to put in cathedars without following the check list. He says: "We're human
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