We can train surgeons like fighter pilots

"The discrepancy in the surgical outcomes was striking. Within the span of a few months, Tamir Wolf had diagnosed his wife and previous boss with appendicitis, and the two had headed to two different New York City hospitals — mere miles apart — for their appendectomy, a common surgical procedure where the inflamed little organ is removed from the abdomen.

“The approach to treatment and treatment were very, very, different, leading to different outcomes,” Wolf says..." Lire la suite