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Aircraft crash far less often than hospitals do harm—but only one of them hands out water and apologies when things go wrong.
From Runways to Recovery Rooms is what happens when a flight doctor and an educationist look at hospitals through a cockpit window and can’t stop seeing near misses everywhere. Airlines have quietly turned disasters into checklists, drills and honest debriefs. Hospitals, packed with equally smart, caring people, still rely on heroic memory, WhatsApp orders and “let’s hope this works.”
This book boldly steals aviation’s safety tricks—threat-and-error thinking, the Dirty Dozen, the I’M SAFE check, closed loop communication, HFACS—and smuggles them into OPDs, wards, ICUs, OTs and even billing counters. You’ll see why tired pilots are grounded while tired surgeons are applauded, why a near crash becomes a formal case study but an “almost disaster” on the ward becomes corridor gossip, and how a simple “say it, hear it, confirm it” habit could quietly save more lives than the newest scanner.
It’s not a textbook, and it’s not a tear stained memoir. It’s a sharp, funny field guide for anyone who has ever sat in a hospital waiting room and thought, “If an airline ran like this, nobody would fly it.”
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Aircraft crash far less often than hospitals do harm-but only one of them hands out water and apologies when things go wrong.From Runways to Recovery Rooms is what happens when a flight doctor and an educationist look at hospitals through a cockpit window and can't stop seeing near misses everywhere. Airlines have quietly turned disasters into checklists, drills and honest debriefs. Hospitals, packed with equally smart, caring people, still rely on heroic memory, WhatsApp orders and 'let's hope this works.'This book boldly steals aviation's safety tricks-threat-and-error thinking, the Dirty Dozen, the I'M SAFE check, closed loop communication, HFACS-and smuggles them into OPDs, wards, ICUs, OTs and even billing counters. You'll see why tired pilots are grounded while tired surgeons are applauded, why a near crash becomes a formal case study but an 'almost disaster' on the ward becomes corridor gossip, and how a simple 'say it, hear it, confirm it' habit could quietly save more lives than the newest scanner.It's not a textbook, and it's not a tear stained memoir. It's a sharp, funny field guide for anyone who has ever sat in a hospital waiting room and thought, 'If an airline ran like this, nobody would fly it.'. Seller Inventory # 9798902697503
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