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The Checklist Manifesto
By:Atul Gawande
Published on 2010-04-01 by Metropolitan Books

The New York Times bestselling author of Better 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. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies—neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication. Now innovative checklists are being adopted in hospitals around the world, helping doctors and nurses respond to everything from flu epidemics to avalanches. Even in the immensely complex world of surgery, a simple ninety-second variant has cut the rate of fatalities by more than a third. 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. He explains how checklists actually work to prompt striking and immediate improvements. And he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disaster response to investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds. 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.

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(Please realize that many a sic are implied in the next reviews.) its actually complicated and foolish! why cant we be examining like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at least that book is good! There you have it. Refreshingly, not a review prepared in among the witch's sounds or alluding to Hillary and Bill Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Only a primal shout unleashed into the black wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) a teenager, but I admire his power to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation with an economy and a clarity that renders his convictions all the more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's review of exactly the same play. You may'know'MICHAEL; he is the'Problems Architect'only at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in that it implies that he designs problems... which might be the case, for several I know.) This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that that you don't want to see is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks in the first place, if it had been supposed to be read, then it would be a novel, not just a play. Along with that the teach had us students browse the play aloud (on person for every single character for a few pages). None of us had read the play before. None of us wanted to see it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that appeared as if they weren't paying attention. This compounded to produce me pretty much hate reading classics for something like 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And yes it can actually fuck up your GPA. There's no wasteful extravagance in this editorial... no fanfare, no fireworks, no linked photos of half-naked, oiled-up, big-bosomed starlets, no invented dialogues between mcdougal and the review-writer. It's simple and memorable. Being required to read plays is wrong, and in the event that you require anyone, under duress, to read a play you then have sinned and will hell, if you rely on hell. Or even, you're planning to the DMV. I'm also fed up with all you could smug spelling snobs. You damnable fascists with your new-fangled dictionaries and your fancy-schmancy spell check. Sometimes the passionate immediacy of a message overcomes its spelling limitations. Also, in this age whenever we are taught to respect each other's differences, it seems offensively egocentric and mean-spirited you may anticipate others tokowtow on your small linguistic rules. Imaginative phrase will probably free on its own no matter how you are attempting for you to shackle it. 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