A&E doctor Kevin Fong finds out how doctors can avoid making mistakes in the high-pressure, high-stakes world of the operating theatre.

He sets out to learn how other professionals make life and passing decisions under pressure, from airline pilots facing emergencies, to the Fire Service dealing with lethal blazes, to the world of Formula One pit crews. Kevin discovers how all these fields are helping to make surgery safer.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 52 Episode 3 of Horizon resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Horizon Season 52 Episodes...

• s52e01 - The Truth About Meteors: A Horizon Special
• s52e02 - The Creative Brain: How Insight Works
• s52e03 - How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery
• s52e04 - The Truth About Taste
• s52e05 - Mend Me: A Horizon Guide to Transplants
• s52e06 - The Age of Big Data
• s52e07 - Tomorrow's World
• s52e08 - The Secret Life of the Cat
• s52e09 - Little Cat Diaries
• s52e10 - Fracking
• s52e11 - Swallowed by a Black Hole
• s52e12 - What Makes Us Human?
• s52e13 - The Truth About Personality
• s52e14 - What's Killing Our Bees
• s52e15 - Monitor Me
• s52e16 - Defeating the Hackers
• s52e17 - Dinosaurs
• s52e18 - Comet of the Century

Horizon Show Summary

Horizon is BBC Two's flagship 50-minute science documentary series.

Recognised as the world leader in its field, it regularly wins a sweep of international science, medical and environmental film accolades, and has recently won the Royal Television Society Award and the Prix Italia.

In 2002, the British Academy of Film & Television Arts presented Horizon with the BAFTA Television Award for Best Factual Series or Strand.

In 2003 it won the prestigious Images et Science award for best medical documentary and the Carl von Linne Award at the Living Europe film festival in Sweden. That year, a Horizon co-production with WGBH Boston won the Emmy for best documentary.

In September 2014 it celebrated its 50th anniversary and it continues to enjoy outstanding critical acclaim.