Based on our October 2016 issue of the Future Leaders Communiqué Volume(1) Issue(1) guest edited by Dr Nick Lonergan. This podcast hosted by medical student, Dalyia Abu-Ghazaleh (Griffith University), explores how unquestioning adherence to medical protocols could lead to patient harm.

Read the print edition for the detailed case report of the death of a patient that occurred in part, due to the strict adherence of local protocols and provides three expert commentaries about the benefits and potential dangers of medical protocols.

Time

• 00:00 Introduction Guest Editor Dalyia Abu-Ghazaleh

• 01:12 Case report

• 05:00 What is a medical protocol? Vox pop

• 06:05 Purpose of medical protocols

• 07:15 Origins of protocols: aviation industry

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