He manages to be vivid without being gruesome.
CHECKLIST MANIFESTO BY ATUL GAWANDE HOW TO
has an instinctive sense of how much jargon the lay reader will tolerate - how to maintain the balance between accessibility and precision. packed with vivid writing, heart-stopping anecdotes and statistical surprises ― Financial Times Published On: This is not a paean to bureaucracy. An intellectual adventure in which lives are lost and saved and one simple idea makes a tremendous difference, The Checklist Manifesto is essential reading for anyone working to get things right.Ī welcome book. And he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disaster response to investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds. He explains how checklists actually work to prompt striking and immediate improvements. In riveting stories, Gawande takes us from Austria, where an emergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hour underwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection. Even in the immensely complex world of surgery, a simple ninety-second variant has cut the rate of fatalities by more than a third.
Now innovative checklists are being adopted in hospitals around the world, helping doctors and nurses respond to everything from flu epidemics to avalanches. Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies-neither seems to prevent grievous errors.
The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face.
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