The Philadelphia Inquirer interviewed Carl A. Sirio, MD, Chief Medical Officer for Temple University Health System, as a patient safety expert for an article about items unintentionally left inside patients during surgery at Philadelphia-area hospitals, as well as a sidebar article about what hospitals can do to prevent these “never events.”
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