Let's Talk Surgery: The RCSEd Podcast

Let’s Talk Surgery – Patient Safety, Lifebox and WHO Surgical Checklist with Tom Weiser

• RCSEd • Season 10 • Episode 2

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On the back of the recent World Patient Safety day, Tom Weiser, Trauma and General Surgeon at Stanford joins the Let’s Talk Surgery Podcast to talk some of his landmark patient safety initiatives including developing the WHO Surgical Checklist, and Lifebox (www.lifebox.org).

Extremely fascinating, charismatic and inspiring reflections of his journey and the impact of these patient safety initiatives as well as what the future holds. One top tip shared - “When you don’t know what to do, do what you know until you know what to do…”

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