Forgive me Re-entry. I am not an expert in aviation accidents and perhaps should have written "many" rather than "most". I used the same word that the article used - "Mostly, this is due to a lack of communication skills..." to make an analogy with aviation and should have been more careful. Additionally, I don't necessarily agree with the conclusion of the RCS - many mishaps are anaesthetic related, which doesn't seem to get a mention.
Surgery is more like general aviation than airline transport and I know that the vast majority of mishaps are in GA rather than AT. If I read the data correctly, most accidents in GA come from disregard or sloppiness of basic procedure like QNH errors, weight and balance checks, fuel management errors, flight into adverse weather and skill based errors. As one of your publications says, "there are literally thousands of unique ways to crash an airplane." Many errors in surgery are of this nature - fortunately few result in a "crash"!
I think one can stretch the aviator/surgeon analogy a bit too far - yes there are some similarities, but there are even more important differences.
In AT, CRM has vastly improved communication on the flight deck and rather belatedly surgical bodies are trying to borrow aspects of the principles of CRM to improve communication, but I believe that it is basic training, rather than CRM, that needs the most work.