Reducing medical errors in surgery by eliminating inexact language

If you're mowing the lawn and your spouse asks you to "cut it a little shorter," any discrepancy resulting from your different interpretations of "little" is harmless. In an operating room, however, it can mean the difference, if not between life and death, then between successful healing and injurious failure.

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