by KYW's John Ostapkovich
A surgeon from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital is out with two books that you may not read, but which just might save your life.
Getting sick is bad for your health and sometimes medical mistakes make things worse. Dr. Lisa Marcucci knows full-well from her own work in surgery that success is not just keeping your eye on the ball, but hundreds of them:
"There are probably 15,000 separate discrete steps that have to happen. If you do each one of those steps to 99% perception, you're going to have a known error rate."
Keeping that rate down is behind "Avoiding Common Surgical Errors", which covers 186 of them, and "Avoiding Common ICU Errors" with 318 things to avoid. Six other books are still to come in the series. These are meant for doctors, nurses and other medical professionals, but Dr. Marcucci says it might not be a bad idea to buy one for your physician.
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