Checklists: For Surgeons, Pilots and… Salespeople

Posted on January 16th, 2009 by Dave Stein

I believe in checklists.  Clearly the medical community just got the message as well.  A study published online by the New England Journal of Medicine this week shows that adopting a surgical safety checklist (PDF) reduced deaths and complications by more than a third.  From the Wall Street Journal: Researchers collected data on nearly 8,000 [...]

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Video: The GW Bridge at 900 Feet: What Flight 1549 Passengers Saw

Posted on January 15th, 2009 by Dave Stein

Private pilots regularly—and legally—fly up and down “the Hudson River Corridor” below New York City airspace.  I’ve done it 25 times.  My friend shot this video from the passenger seat of my Cessna.  I was flying north, approaching the George Washington Bridge at 900 feet, the same altitude that the pilot of US Airways Flight [...]

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