After 1986 I felt like a skilled surgeon who's been locked out of the operating room and watches through the glass in horror as some first-year medical students go to work on a patient.

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After he told the story in our M and M meeting, the hospital implemented a "time out" protocol in the operating room for everyone to stop and agree on what operation would be performed, on what side of the body and whether the correct patient was indeed lying on the operating table, to make sure that kind of mistake would never happen again.

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There was no way for me to go into the operating room and hang out with him, and he was spending all of his time there.

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About 45 minutes later, McNeil will move to the operating room to clean out Mellinger's wound, washing out bits of bullet and bone fragments from his thigh.

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From the operating room to test results, finding out from an M.

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To find out, the 200 patients in the Houston trial are being given an amnesia-inducing drug to blot out the memory of the operation before they are whisked into the operating room.

ECONOMIST: Trial and error

While in training, Mr. Newman's technicians are typically relegated to the "triage" area, where devices are laid out on an antistatic mat and diagnosed before being brought to the "operating room, " a workshop in the back of the store that has a large glass window for customers to watch what's going on.

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But one thing we know is true: being a mother is a tough job whether you spend your days cleaning house and wrangling kids in and out of multiple carpools, play dates and activities or in a conference room, court room or operating theater and only see the little buggers on nights and weekends.

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