They example they gave was this: Imagine you're operating on a person and you accidentally leave a sponge deep inside their abdomen. The nurse, following the c

They example they gave was this: Imagine you're operating on a person and you accidentally leave a sponge deep inside their abdomen. The nurse, following the checklist, tells you and you go back in and remove it. In the process, you cut an artery and kill the patient. The patient's family claims the hospital was performing an "experiment" on the patient because without the checklist they would not have gone back in to remove the sponge and the patient would have lived. Obviously, this is stupid. But cases have been won on this principle, which shows legal precedence. When the FDA came knocking, the hospitals, afraid of lawsuits, complied.