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A recent study in the Archives of Surgery reported surgeons removing healthy ovaries, operating on the wrong side of the brain, carrying out procedures on the wrong hand, elbow, eye, foot, and also mistakes born out of thinking errors.
The possible errors, like overcounting or double-stepping, were overcome using design interventions.
It's accumulating new ways of making living organisms because some of those errors work.
DNA accumulates information through random errors, some of which just happen to work.
We make errors.
If you have errors, you can replace a part.
He had to have some errors.
In my 20 years or so of medical broadcasting and journalism, I've made a personal study of medical malpractice and medical errors to learn everything I can, from one of the first articles I wrote for the Toronto Star to my show "White Coat, Black Art."
And what I've learned is that errors are absolutely ubiquitous.
We work in a system where errors happen every day, where one in 10 medications are either the wrong medication given in hospital or at the wrong dosage, where hospital-acquired infections are getting more and more numerous, causing havoc and death.
In this country, as many as 24,000 Canadians die of preventable medical errors.
Instantaneously, every civilian GPS receiver around the globe went from errors the size of a football field to errors the size of a small room.
Now believe it or not, normal, healthy, intelligent adults like you make errors about 50 percent of the time on that kind of trial.
Okay, so if I just show you the percentage errors in a large developmental study we did, this is in a study ranging from age seven to adulthood, and what you're going to see is the percentage errors in the adult group in both conditions, so the gray is the director condition, and you see that our intelligent adults are making errors about 50 percent of the time, whereas they make far fewer errors when there's no director present, when they just have to remember that rule of ignoring the gray background.
Between late childhood and mid-adolescence, there's an improvement, in other words a reduction of errors, in both of these trials, in both of these conditions.
I think we would like for dispensing errors to be zero, wouldn't we?
And yet, as noise levels go up, so do the errors in dispensing made by the staff in hospitals.
Second, these are pretty large errors.
So, a problem in explaining how children learn language, a problem in teaching language to adults so that they don't make grammatical errors, and a problem in programming computers to use language is which verbs go in which constructions.
Eighty percent of medical errors are actually caused by communication and coordination problems amongst medical team members.
There are errors everywhere, errors in the document, it's the wrong name of the captain, some of the boats never actually took to sea.
There are errors in translation, interpretative biases, and on top of that, if you add algorithmic processes, you're going to have errors in recognition, errors in extraction, so you have very, very uncertain data.
I actually believe the problem that we see and the reason that we have these incredible system errors, where we're incarcerating low-level, nonviolent people and we're releasing high-risk, dangerous people, is that we don't have an objective measure of risk.
People were not really better at remembering the pass phrases than these random passwords, and because the pass phrases are longer, they took longer to type and people made more errors while typing them in.
So let me first make a confession about my errors in my values.
Research has shown us that openness also helps doctors, that having open medical records, being willing to talk about medical errors, will increase patient trust, improve health outcomes, and reduce malpractice.
There are in fact quite a few errors.
So hoax appealers are more likely to shake their heads, to look away, and to make errors in their speech, whereas genuine appealers are more likely to express hope that the person will return safely and to avoid brutal language.
If they believed there were any errors, we asked them to tell us what they were and we'd go back and check and they never challenged any of our findings.
So we had to create a new method for putting these little pieces together and correct all the errors.
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