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  • Patient safety and general practice: traversing the tightrope

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    de Wet, Carl
    Bowie, Paul
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    de Wet, Carl
    Year published
    2014
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    Abstract
    On 30 June 1859 Charles Blondin successfully crossed the 340 metre span of the Niagara gorge on a tightrope suspended 50 metres above the rushing water. As if this wasn’t enough, he repeated the feat several times over the next few months with some added twists: he crossed on stilts, he crossed blindfolded, he carried a stove across and made an omelette on it, and then he pushed a wheelbarrow across. On reaching the other side he apparently asked the rapturous crowd whether they believed he could push a man across in the wheelbarrow. Their affirmative cheers drowned out the roaring river, but when he asked for a volunteer ...
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    On 30 June 1859 Charles Blondin successfully crossed the 340 metre span of the Niagara gorge on a tightrope suspended 50 metres above the rushing water. As if this wasn’t enough, he repeated the feat several times over the next few months with some added twists: he crossed on stilts, he crossed blindfolded, he carried a stove across and made an omelette on it, and then he pushed a wheelbarrow across. On reaching the other side he apparently asked the rapturous crowd whether they believed he could push a man across in the wheelbarrow. Their affirmative cheers drowned out the roaring river, but when he asked for a volunteer they fell silent ...
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    Journal Title
    British Journal of General Practice
    Volume
    64
    Issue
    621
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp14X677716
    Copyright Statement
    © 2014 Royal College of General Practitioners. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
    Public Health and Health Services
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/134150
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