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His hospitals have flow sheets that tell nurses what to do if someone is deteriorating rapidly and there’s no cardiac surgeon nearby, for instance.—
Alana Semuels,
Time,
10 Nov. 2026 Designed as a kind of flow sheet, these pages would proscribe the steps that Lacassagne, his lab chief and students would follow in investigating each possible cause of death, with a series of observations to check off along the way.—
Douglas Starr,
Discover Magazine,
28 Feb. 2011