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We have unraveled a staggering number of the body's secrets: to attack some 13,000 diagnoses, doctors now wield an arsenal of 6,000 drugs and 4,000 procedures. But surgeon and author Atul Gawande says the very vastness of our knowledge gets in the way: doctors make errors...
You say checklists can help fix that but sometimes run against the medical culture. We evolved from a world where the operating theater - we called it a theater - was a stage for the surgeon. Now it is a stage for an entire team of people to work in sync. The...
How can medical schools encourage doctors to be more willing to talk about failure? We don't equip people who are about to be doctors for the idea that they're going to fail and that they have a responsibility to build a plan for that understanding. We don't...
Let's talk about health care reform. Do you think the Democrats have gotten it basically right or wrong when it comes to slowing the growth of medical spending? The core point at which health care costs explode is the point at which the doctor and the patient sit down...
But new research on the origins of the fatal cancer suggest that methods for rapid diagnosis and even a vaccine against the disease may be possible. Reporting in a paper published in the Jan. 1 issue of Science, an international team of researchers based in Australia and New York State...