[llimllib]

I don't know what the exact process would be, but I think that the key would be to focus on process. Start treating each patient mishap like the FAA treats every airline mishap, take steps to ensure that each doesn't happen in the same way again, and I think you could improve things a great deal.

I think doctors focus on, and are very good at, doctoring. A little more focus on process and the totality of the hospital experience could bring big gains relatively quickly.

That's just an outside opinion though, my wife would probably disagree with me.

[tdb7893]

I doubt it would scale. The FAA regulates one thing (flying planes) and there still are a ton of checklists and regulations, presumably if you tried the same thing with medicine it would collapse under it's own weight with all the different edge cases