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Between efficiency and waste Part 3: A day in the OR – a field report

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Surgery & surgical planning Clinic A (non-lean) The elective surgery plan is usually fixed weeks in advance, but the surgeons are not assigned until the day before at the earliest. If I postpone the paperwork until the afternoon, it’s sometimes enough to skim through the surgical steps. A young doctor has experienced both.