Left or right?
Hi Dochealth,
Very interesting thread. Am I right in assuming that surgeons in general look to operate as a cohesive team in a controlled ebvironment? If so, the many lessons of multi-crew interaction (e.g checklist use, briefings, communication loops, allocation of roles, leadership/followership, DODAR & NITS, confirmation baias & error chain avoidance etc...) can be applied to the surgical environment.
I seem to remember recently that a UK hospital was taking some of these aviation learnings and applying to their surgical methodology (sorry havent got the article). After all there are similairites to amputating the wrong leg and shutting down the wrong engine... which has happened in both professions.
PP