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Horizon tells amazing science stories and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

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Aidan Laverty

Horizon: 2012-2013: Episode 9: How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery

How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery

Episode 9

Episode 9: How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery

2012-2013

BBC Two - Horizon, 2012-2013, How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery

What can surgeons learn from other professions about making life or death decisions?

Topical science series. Dr Kevin Fong finds out what surgeons can learn from other professionals who make life and death decisions under pressure.

Dr Kevin Fong finds out how doctors can avoid making mistakes in the high-pressure, high-stakes world of the operating theatre. 

He sets out to learn how other professionals make life and death decisions under pressure, from airline pilots facing emergencies, to the Fire Service dealing with lethal blazes, to the world of Formula One pit crews. Kevin discovers how all these fields are helping to make surgery safer.

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