Windsor hospital changes pre-op checklist
Friday, March 5, 2010 - 11:21
in Health & Medicine
A hospital in Windsor, Ont., is changing its surgical checklist in light of at least two cases at another local hospital where women had a breast removed even though they did not have cancer.
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