Vivian had never met a girl like Shelly, who left her money lying around on tables and liked to throw blindfold dinner parties.

NEWYORKER: Temporary

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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