This week, using the hard fought lessons from the aviation industry to make
health care safer and avoid medical mistakes. Brian Goldman speaks to
Captain
Sully Sullenberger, the pilot who safely guided US Airways Flight 1549 to an
emergency landing in the Hudson River -- saving everyone on board. Sully speaks about how the principles of aviation safety can be applied the
world of medicine Then, a Canadian surgeon on how he's applying those high-flying lessons in the OR. Then a former nurse turned health care executive on how her experience with medical mistakes and her own experience as a cancer patient made her realize that we're all "passengers in this airplane" of making medicine safer.