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Re:Why Doctors Reject Tools That Make Their Jobs Easier by pavlov on Monday October 15, 2018 @06:29PM (#18224489)
Surgical safety checklists were shown to lower 30-day post-operative mortality by 22%:

https://www.cardiovascularbusiness.com/topics/coronary-inter...

You'd imagine something as basic as checklists would be implemented as standard procedure in modern medicine -- yet this study was in 2013, not 1963. Most likely the majority of surgeons are still dragging their feet on this. It's a very conservative field with lots of big egos.

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Re:Why Doctors Reject Tools That Make Their Jobs Easier by gowld on Monday October 15, 2018 @07:18PM (#18224937)
Checklists make patient outcomes better; they don't make surgeons' work easier.
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Re:Why Doctors Reject Tools That Make Their Jobs Easier by onetimemanytime on Monday October 15, 2018 @07:24PM (#18224989)
I guess killing the patients as soon as the cut them open would be easier for the doctor :), but their job us to heal patients. Anything that improves on outcomes is good. The OP might have suggested that instead of new tools, just use the old checklist system.
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Re:Why Doctors Reject Tools That Make Their Jobs Easier by TeMPOraL on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @02:30AM (#18227112)
There's also trust issue. Doctors, who like everyone can be opinionated, had to be convinced one-by-one that checklists actually work and are worth messing up their work habits - unlike the many other things people are trying to sell hospitals.
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