Monday, January 25, 2010

Make room for patient safety

The New York Times has a piece by two medical students that points out how little medical schools are doing to teach future doctors about patient safety. It's a shame that schools can't scale back biochemistry to carve out some time for concepts that would actually save lives. And wouldn't it make more sense to inculcate good practices at the outset rather than trying to break bad habits later?

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