Could the straightforward checklists used by airline pilots also help save lives in the operating room? Dr. Atul Gawande's book, "The Checklist Manifesto," examines how lists can reduce risk in the ...
How to Get Things Right, by Atul Gawande. Metropolitan, 209 pp., $24. Sometimes a deeply complex problem has a deceptively simple answer. That is the underlying message of Atul Gawande's "The ...
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Ten years ago, checklists for surgeons were all the rage. Inspired by the preflight routines of airline pilots, surgical checklists were shown to prevent tragic errors, reduce infections and save ...
In The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Metropolitan Books, 2010), Atul Gawande, a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in Boston, ...