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The Science of Innovation & When Doctors Make Mistakes

Something You Should Know

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The Importance of Near Misses

"Catastrophic errors, like cutting off the wrong leg or operating the wrong side of the brain, those are rare. They do happen, but they're not that common," he says. "Then there's a huge category of what we call the near miss": There are errors happen, but the patient did okay."

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