Chicago Inno: "In Hopes of Preventing Errors, Startup, PraxiCut, is Creating Realistic Surgery Simulation Tools"

An estimated 250,000 deaths occur every year due to medical errors — almost half of these in the operating room. This might even be a conservative estimate, given not all states are required to report these numbers and death certificates don’t have a checkbox labelled “medical error”. As medical training evolves to reduce this chance of error, two Chicago entrepreneurs have created a physical surgery simulation technology that it claims is more realistic than existing education tools. READ MORE