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Volume 344:1480-1481 May 10, 2001 Number 19
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The Presidential Candidates and Health Care

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To the Editor: In the presidential candidates' discussion of their vision of health care (Oct. 19 issue),1 George W. Bush refers to the concealment of medical errors due to the perceived risk of litigation and calls for research on why errors occur and how they can be prevented, making the statement, "That is why a cloak of secrecy envelops operating rooms." I am unsure why President Bush believes adverse events in operating rooms are more likely to be concealed than those in any other arena of medicine. In fact, anesthesiologists have led the way in attempting to detect, document, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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