atse - "Just try getting surgeons to allow VCRs or video cameras into an operating theatre (where the level of risk is multiples of the level of risk in an aeroplane and the need for good ex poste analysis is acute). You’ll learn a few things about how to look after your interests from the reaction!"
Let's get it right.
"1999 report "To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System" from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. The report from the private institute, an advisory body to the U.S. government, estimates that 44,000 to 98,000 deaths occur each year in hospitals alone as the result of medical mistakes."
Not, you may note, confined to surgical errors....
I wouldn't mind if I thought that it really would reduce M & M. Gotta doubt it though. Surgeons would certainly tell less jokes (usually worse than those in JB) and become more fed up (just like pilots).