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 ...
Atul Gawande, MD, a surgeon at Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital and writer for The New Yorker, claims physicians should incorporate a simple checklist into their pre-surgery routine because ...
The New Yorker’s Atul Gawande wrote one of the most influential stories about health care in 2009. The piece, published in June, was about geographic disparities in health spending, specifically why ...
Speaking about dealing with unexpected challenges in medicine, Atul Gawande — a surgeon who writes for The New Yorker when he's not at his day job at Harvard Medical School — relates a story about a ...
A surgical checklist implemented at several South Carolina hospitals may have been one of the factors that led Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase to name Atul Gawande, MD, CEO of their ...
In this exclusive video, Jeremy Faust, MD, editor-in-chief of MedPage Today, chats with surgeon, author, and public health leader Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, about his book The Checklist Manifesto: How to ...
Organizations which use checklists to ensure proper and timely administering of antibiotics, and confirm a patient’s condition and operation, at various stages of the patient surgical process ...