The pen is mightier than the infection!

Darkfrog submitted, created time 2 months 2 weeks (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

The pen is mightier than the lawsuit ...at least when it comes to avoiding surgical mistakes. A pen can be used to mark the part of the patient's body meant for surgery. It can be done when the patient is wide awake and able to participate and, if necessary, able to say, "No, not that leg, THAT ONE!!" The phenomenon is called wrong-sided surgery and the solution, it seems, is a laundry pen.

You'd be surprised how much that helps

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Vaccine-autism link discredited in NEJM, given full weight on ABC

Sue Wu submitted, created time 11 months 1 week (www.usatoday.com)

The premiere episode of Eli Stone, in which a mother wins a $5.2 million lawsuit charging her son got autism from a vaccine, is stirring controversy before it airs.

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