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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Physician Oversight Is Essential to Control the Health Care Bureaucracy

Just Because the Joint Commission Says It Is So, Does Not Make It So

John G. Brock-Utne, MD, PhD
Professor of Anesthesia, Emeritus
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, Calif.
Richard A. Jaffe, MD, PhD
Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine,
and, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, Calif.

In an upcoming issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology,1 we have written a Research Brief titled “Spiking of Intravenous Bag Does Not Cause