@Aphrodite @calamari
I'll have to see if I can find the study, but a study was done at a US hospital to compare reported checklist completion with actual checklist completion.
They found out of many dozens of entries in the list that it was rare for any of them to actually be done, including the one to double check the patient's name prior to anaesthetic, to make sure they're about to operate on the right person!
@Twirrim @Aphrodite @calamari As someone who's had a lot of surgeries & procedures involving anesthetic in the past 5 years, I'm quite thankful that my identity has been checked and re-checked every time.