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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

We have unraveled a staggering number of the body’s secrets: to attack some 13,000 diagnoses, doctors now wield an arsenal of 6,000 drugs and 4,000 procedures. But surgeon and author Atul Gawande says ...

Speaking about dealing with unexpected challenges in medicine, Atul Gawande — a surgeon who writes for The New Yorker when he's not at his day job at Harvard Medical School — relates a story about a ...

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Surgeon and MacArthur fellow Gawande applies his gift for dulcet prose to medical and ethical dilemmas in this collection of 12 original and previously published essays adapted from theNew England ...

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 ...