#include std_disclaimer.h I work on the team that maintains the CA Electronic Death Certificate System. Yesterday, our supervisor sent this out among the team

#include std_disclaimer.h I work on the team that maintains the CA Electronic Death Certificate System. Yesterday, our supervisor sent this out among the team. The certificates have spots for immediate and contributing cause of death. We are working on a system for doctors to enter this information (tie in our system to the hospital's) while it is fresh in mind for the staff, and to gather the info in near real time for NIH after finalization. However, even as a programmer, I think it is harsh to expect a doctor to self critique himself/herself in that position (assuming he/she were so inclined). As one of the commenters on one of the articles about this study pointed out, it used to be automatic that a death in the hospital went to the coroner. This would allow a somewhat neutral, educated, third party to asses for procedural errors and the like. Are we, in the continuing age of Reaganism in the US, ready to budget for that sort of backstop to find, analyze and correct these kind of problems?