The Checklist Manifesto
Checklist Manifesto - How to get things right written by Atul Gawande The problem of extreme complexity . We see on TV and in movies, how simple it looks to save the life of a patient. But it's not that simple in reality. Scores of people carry out thousands of steps correctly. The degree of difficulty in any of the steps is substantial. An American on an average undergoes 7 operations in her/his lifetime. With surgeons performing more than 5 crore operations annually- the amount of harm remains substantial. We continue to have upwards of 1.5lk deaths following a surgery every year- more than 3 times the road traffic fatalities. The knowledge exists. However supreme specialized we may have become, steps are still missed, mistakes are still made by humans. Medicine with dazzling successes still has limitations. It therefore possesses a challenge. What do you do when even super- specialization fails? What do you do when the expertise is not enough? The auth...