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Would checklists help doctors avoid surgical errors?

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    Jonathan Serrie reports from Atlanta

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-- -- this every year there are thousands of surgical errors in US hospitals.

Ranging from surgical tools that are left inside patients can you imagine.

To the wrong patient being operated on -- -- they operate on the wrong armor lung or all of these kinds of issues so now experts.

Are saying that doctors could learn a thing or two from pilots.

In order to avoid making these mistakes checklists were.

Seeing in the future right Jonathan Serrie is live.

Atlanta with more on this so how would they learn from the pilots shot then.

Well if you go inside a cockpit you'll see that the pilots are constantly going over checklist to make sure that all of their equipment is working properly -- that.

All of the pilots are on board with the same flight plan will now doctors are finding that they can drastically reduce surgical errors by.

Adopting a few simple yet highly effective practices watch.

NASCAR pit crews spend.

Pilots use them.

And now doctors are starting to use checklists to reduce medical errors the data shows decrease mortality.

Decrease complications for patients and that's most important thing doctor John Sweeney employs checklist before during and after surgeries at Emory university hospital.

Making sure his team performs the correct procedure on the right patient and killing each item that's used in the surgery.

The -- the checklist.

Is help take care of the simple things so that the health care team can really focus on.

The areas that need their brilliance and need improvisation.

And the things that might be unexpected.

-- health -- chief medical officer William Bornstein says checklist also empower junior hospital staff to speak up when they noticed something out of the ordinary.

This team approach is something former fighter pilot chance Campbell teaches corporate clients and is consulting firm after burner it really starts with -- admitting that I can make a mistake.

And then understanding that there are people around me that if I empower them the right way they can help me avoid that mistake.

So Martha what essentially is a fighter pilots Bible is now winning converts in the medical community back to you.

It's a very cool story thank you -- sounds like good advice certainly --

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