4/3/07 I went to a talk by Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon, author and professor at Harvard. He did a study looking at why doctors accidentally leave sponges, tools in a patient during surgery, called "Risk factors for retained instruments and sponges after surgery." N Engl J Med. 2003 Jan 16;348(3):229-35. This video is aboout what I learned from him in this paper and from asking him a couple of questions. For more of a written description: bostonmedicalstudent.wordpress.com General idea behind these health videos: I'm a first year medical student in Boston. Every day, I'm learning exciting and critical topics on medicine and health. But too often, the things I'm learning about never reach the public. I wanted to try an experiment -- sharing health information on youtube, with the sole purpose of trying to get more important health information to you all. Unlike some of the other health videos out there, mine are not about promoting a book, a diet, a pill, an agenda. I hope to answer your questions either through e-mail or through the video updates -- please, please, (please!) e-mail me any questions and I will try my best to answer them by asking my professors and by citing credibles sources (JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, etc...) e-mail: unitedstatesmedicalstudent@gma il.com I hope this experiment works -- and if it fails, I hope someone sees these videos, says, "hmmm, these are bad videos, but I love the idea," and decides to go for it. ______ PS I wanted to point ...
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Orignal From: Surgical Errors Part I: leaving tools in the patient's body
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