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There are common underlying causes in most cases of surgical errors, including surgical incompetence, lack of skill, inadequate preparation, negligence, lack of necessary equipment, or a [...]
really? and maybe a bunch of billionaires as well. what many people are asking is to buy or not to buy? that is the question today. ali velshi and christine romans have very, very different opinions on whether you should buy in or not. i'm curious. do you buy? i'm on facebook. love facebook. is this going to be apple or not? >> remember, apple went sideways for a long time and almost went out of business first, right? it's more like google maybe. google went up. >> both were game changers. >> that's right. >> this is going to be history one way or the other. the way i see it, this is...
Or trying to sell a medical device or trying to sell something like that there is this new service industry or technology industry of trying to find new ways to deliver health care better, more efficiently and reduce hospital errors. i am working with john hopkins with peter on his checklist system and there is a tremendous need for that, yes. >> and how valuable do you see that? and also from talking to dr. brenner, that sort of thing that you're talking about is very threatening to a lot of incumbent businesses who stand to lose a revenue stream as we adopt some of the new techniques. how mu...
Hospital errors might be ten times higher than previously thought. affecting one in three patients. >> our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us from atlanta with the details on this. we're pretty surprised by these numbers. >> the numbers are very high. other studies have found in this ballpark, what they did was they used a new way of analyzing when things go wrong at the hospital. because when things go wrong. sometimes doctors will say that was fate, that's just the way it happened. maybe not. maybe it's because mistakes are being made. >> are these small oversights or thin...