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 ...

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, ...

“It is common to misconceive how checklists function in complex lines of work. They are not comprehensive how-to guides … they are quick and simple tools aimed to buttress the skills of expert ...

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 ...

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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 ...