This is a brilliant book about an idea so simple it sounds dumb until you hear the case for it. Atul Gawande presents an argument so strong that I challenge anyone to go away from this book ...

The best chapter in Atul Gawande's short, splendid book is the last one. He calls it "The Save," and with zero melodrama, the surgeon/author lays bare a case in which he nearly killed a patient, and ...

Modern doctors are arguably the most hyper-educated professionals in the world, requiring eight years of higher education, followed by three to 10 years of residency and subspecialty training. And yet ...

"The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right" By Atul Gawande. Metropolitan Books, New York, 2009. 209 pages. $24.50. In the face of complex surgery, perhaps the removal of a dangerous tumor in ...

I read The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right eager to be enlightened. I wasn't. Don't get me wrong--it is a good book and likely a worthwhile read for almost anyone outside of industries ...

A few months back, a business acquaintance looked at my company Traklight’s software and recommended that I read Dr. Atul Gawande’s Checklist Manifesto. A book ...

This post is by Kathleen Cushman, a journalist and educator who for more than 25 years has documented deeper learning in articles, books, and mixed media. Her book with WKCD colleague Barbara Cervone, ...