NYTIMES

The NYTimes article I read is entitled "CheckList Reduces Deaths in Surgery". This article believes that by answering a series of questions before patients are prep for surgery can decrease the number of deaths during and/or after a procedure. Studies showed that by following the use of this checklist, death rates has decreased more than 40%. The checklist consists of simple questions such as Did the doctors introduce themselves to the patient? Has everything been sterlized? Is there enough blood supply if anything was to go wrong? Just to name a few. After reading this article one thought came to mind; Are you serious? One would think that these questions should have been answered years ago before surgery was to begin. My thoughts are if having a checklist of basic questions could have almost a 50% change of your several rate then I wouldn't want to go to those particular doctors in the first place.