The Checklist Manifesto

By Atul Gawande

Categories: Business & Money, Medical Books

We know more than ever, yet avoidable mistakes keep happening in hospitals, government, law, and finance. Atul Gawande argues the reason is that modern knowledge has grown too vast and complex for any one person to apply it consistently and safely. His fix is strikingly simple: the checklist. Through stories from medicine and other fields, he shows what checklists can and can't do. A World Health Organization surgical checklist built on these ideas has been adopted as a standard of care in more than twenty countries.

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