Elderly patients 23% more likely to die if surgery is on the surgeon’s birthday
<a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/2019/01/surgical-safety-checklist/" rel="nofollow">https://www.england.nhs.uk/2019/01/surgical-safety-checklist...</a><p>Getting surgeons to adopt the kind of "It's obvious but point and speak or you're fired"-style checklists a la operating an aircraft has reduced complications (from the minor to deaths) by several percent in the NHS. It's perhaps worrying given how low-hanging some of these fruit are - i.e. "Do we have the right patient?".