Mixed Surgical Teams Lead to Less Medical Error - The Ecconomist

 Mixed surgical teams lead to less medical error

  "Surgeons are people, and people are animals, and animals often fight. Which is why Frans de Wall, one of the world's leading experts on animal behaviour, has turned his attention to the operating theatre to demonstrate how insights drawn from his discipline might improve surgical practice."

   "As they describe in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, after analysing each of more than 6,000 exchanged insults and pleasantries, they found that surgical communication does indeed mimic wild-animal behaviour, both collaborative and hostile. In particular, as happens among wild animals, both males and females jostle for dominance with others of their own sex while trying to ingratiate themselves with members of the opposite one."

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   Two things coming up my mind are: 1) How easily I forget that I am one of animals 2) What an interesting and unique research on this kind of subject. And there is always someone out there to seek for the truth that I have never imagined before. 

   Besides, it seems to me tnat everything is analyzed in numbers, in order to represent the truth. And the reason behind reminding I am one of animals is that it provide a wide range of explanation to understand things around me precisely.