A63-year-old patient is having cataract surgery. The surgeon calls for the lens, and the circulating nurse, just returning from lunch, presents what he thinks is the correct lens. Without checking, the surgeon asks the nurse to open the lens container. The lens he inserts turns out to be the one…
If health care were sports, physicians would be playing golf or tennis. Each MD would be trying to win a match to score points for the team. Nurses would be playing volleyball, where every member has a role—to dig, set, or spike the ball. Physicians and nurses both consider themselves…