The Checklist Manifesto

Atul Gawande is the author of several best-selling books, including Complications, which was a National Book Award finalist; Better; The Checklist Manifesto; and Being Mortal. He is also a surgeon at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, a New Yorker staff writer, and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has received the Lewis Thomas Prize for Science Writing, a MacArthur Fellowship, and two National Magazine Awards. He is the Founder and Chair of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and Lifebox, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making surgery safer around the world.

Atul Gawande's latest best-seller, The Checklist Manifesto, reveals what the simple concept of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and how we can deal with it. The book is among the best books on health care.

The modern world has provided us with incredible knowledge. Nonetheless, avoidable failures continue to plague us in health care, government, the legal system, the financial sector, and almost every other organized activity. And the reason is simple: the volume and complexity of knowledge today has outstripped our ability as individuals to deliver it to people in a consistent, correct, and safe manner. We train longer, specialize more, and use ever-improving technology, but we still fail. Atul Gawande makes a compelling argument that we can do better, using the simplest of methods: the checklist. In riveting stories, he reveals what checklists can do, what they can’t, and how they could bring about striking improvements in a variety of fields, from medicine and disaster recovery to professions and businesses of all kinds. And the insights are making a difference. Already, a simple surgical checklist developed by the World Health Organization based on the ideas described here has been adopted as a standard of care in more than twenty countries and has been dubbed "the biggest clinical invention in thirty years" (The Independent).

Author: Atul Gawande

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/dp/0312430000/

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