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What Do Grocery Stores, Surgeries Have in Common?

 Learn more at Mayo Clinic

The odds are once out of every 6,000 operations: A surgical team unintentionally leaves something, such as a sponge, inside of a patient.

Doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester show us how they use grocery store bar code technology to reduce these errors.


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