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If there was a medical device that could reduce harm by 50% EVERYBODY would be buying it. Droves of salesmen would be reenacting that movie Love and Other Drugs and making HELLY sales. 

That's like taking creatine and gaining 45 LBS OF MUSCLE!!!!!!!! 

But what if... there was a development.... that impactful, but no one cared?

Would you think it was a cruel joke? That the world was upside down? That everybody needed to wake up?

See... that's exactly what Dr. G found when he SAVED THE WORLD by figuring out that a simple CHECKLIST could reduce surgical harm by 50 FUCKING Percent. 

This is his Mein Kampf. 

Checklists. You need them.