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A Surgeon's Humble Revolution - Illustration on diligence | IllustrateTheWord

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A Surgeon's Humble Revolution

Source: Atul Gawande introduces the surgical safety checklist, reducing deaths by 47%, World Health Organization, global initiative, 2008239 wordsAI-crafted by ChurchWiseAI

In 2008, Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande faced a uncomfortable truth: operating rooms filled with the most educated professionals on earth were making preventable mistakes. Not...

This is a contemporary on diligence and humility, drawing on Colossians 3:23.

In 2008, Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande faced a uncomfortable truth: operating rooms filled with the most educated professionals on earth were making preventable mistakes. Not because surgeons lacked skill, but because they skipped simple steps. A sponge left inside a patient. The wrong knee operated on. An allergy overlooked. Gawande partnered with the World Health Organization to develop a nineteen-item surgical safety checklist — a one-page document that asked teams to do ordinary things: confirm the patient's name, verify the correct surgical site, check whether antibiotics had been given.…

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Colossians 3:23

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