Audit

A real story from a surgeon (well, yes, I add the seasonings):

After attending the audit meeting in the headquarters, the Chief-of-Service called an urgent meeting with his young consultant, who happened to be still living on earth.

"Look, we're not doing very well here," the COS began by pointing at a particular diagram in the report he got from the headquarters meeting.

"Yes ...?" the junior consultant became anxious as soon as he followed the finger of his boss and realized that the diagram was about the operation lesionectomy - an operation that was almost entirely done by himself.

"You see?" the senior surgeon was inpatient, "The operative mortality of this procedure is 2.4% in our unit, much higher than the overall result in city, which is 2.0% only!"

For a moment, the young surgeon hallucinated that his boss was Columbus, who landed on Cuba but believed himself discovered the New World. After a moment of silence in discomfort, trying to pull his thoughts together, he murmured slowly, "That difference between 2.4% and 2.0% was, in fact, one patient ..."

He thought the explanation was quite enough.

But, the Chief-of-Service was not satisfied, "Then, why did that patient die ?"

Well, I don't know what that particular patient died, but I am sure the young consultant died of a seizure.