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29 June 2012
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

By Atul Gawande
Profile Books
January 2011
978-1846683145
RRP £8.99. Kindle version available.

In his third book of the same style, the Boston-Harvard based Professor of Surgery and Public Health recounts his experiences with another facet of surgical practice–the checklist–exhorting the medical community to engage with simple changes in practice that could have a huge knock-on effect.

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10 years 11 months ago

Inspiring author

Atul Gawande has an astonishing facility to untangle and explain the most complex concept - so he was the ideal go-to guy when the WHO wanted to create a simple scheme to reduce morbidity and mortality from surgery worldwide. This book explains beautifully how simple checklists can make complex tasks with multiple steps and decisions safer, and how the Safe Surgery Checklist came to be developed. The aviation industry is examined (of course) but also the building industry, restaurants, music and others.

He is such an inspiring author, I became an absolute zealot for checklists after reading this. His other books are worth a read, to the extent that I alarmed a complete stranger by advising him to buy "Better" while browsing in Waterstone's the other day.

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11 years 9 months ago

Simple yet with wide reaching implications

A very readable explanation of how simple checklists can have a dramatic effect on preventing errors. Helpful comparisons with the aviaition industry and a challenge to include discipline in following prudent procedures and functioning with others as a key feature of professionalism.

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11 years 10 months ago

Diligence, Doing Right and

Diligence, Doing Right and Ingenuity are covered in this title, the second narrative work from the master US surgeon whose writing appears to have gripped a generation of healthcare providers. 

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