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Pete Smith is nothing without the energy and commitment of the amazing people who surround him. Just as it takes a village to raise a child, so it takes a world of people to change the world. Increasing the technical skill of a health care clinician makes for incremental change. Improve the culture within which they work, think and communicate and suddenly quantum change is possible. Two perioperative nurses from a regional hospital in Victoria, Australia, innovated a simple, elegant solution to the problem of noise and distraction in the operating room. Pete Smith was one of them. Now they are on the cusp of a clinician-led safety culture transformation in healthcare settings around the world. With iatrogenic misadventure more prevalent than most would dare imagine, patients, nurses and doctors all stand to benefit. We cannot afford to be ignorant, nor arrogant. No one should have to die for their care. Not even on the inside. But first one must make the individual decision to act. You already have all the permission you need to be the change you want to see in your world. 'Below Ten Thousand!' Dare to care!

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Pete Smith is just a guy at the shallow end of the gene pool. He spent the first five years of his life under a farmhouse playing in the dirt with his Matchbox cars. He spent the next eleven years surrounded by cows. His brother, Greg, five years older, had severe Down Syndrome. Greg was much, much cooler than Pete could ever be. So how did this impoverished kid who knew more about cows than humans end up as a career nurse? And how did this unpolished introvert finish up co-creating what he calls 'the greatest thing in nursing since the Bristol Stool Chart'? The world is a mysterious place. Some would say complex, dangerous and chaotic. But really, it is quite simple if we allow it to be. In self-imposed exile from what he sees as the brutality of the healthcare system, Pete has a roof over his head, food in his belly, and now, back on the family farm, something to do each day. He is unerringly accompanied in his work by his three-legged dog and, occasionally, by his three favourite people: his wife, son and daughter.

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