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0 pointseuler_angles7y ago0 comments

Maybe -- and this is just my own opinion/speculation -- this is because in my lines of work, the results of failing to follow a checklist can be at worst catastrophic and relatively immediate. In medicine, some classes of failures might be more subtle and harder to notice.

Anyone with medical knowledge, feel free to inform me if that idea is totally off-base.

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jerf7y ago

Also in medicine, it's often not the practitioner who suffers the consequences, which even if we ignore the moral aspects, means the feedback loop isn't closed tightly, making learning more difficult.

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