Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande: How to avoid death, bankruptcy and cooking the wrong meal
About the Author
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\nAtul Gawande, MD, MPH, is a surgeon, writer, and public health leader. He is CEO of the
\nnon-profit-seeking health care venture formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and
\nJPMorgan Chase to deliver better outcomes, satisfaction, and cost efficiency in care.
\nHe practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital. He is a
\nprofessor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan
\nSchool of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical
\nSchool.
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\nHe is the founding executive director and chairman of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health
\nsystems innovation, and chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer
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\nAtul has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1998 and has written four
\nNew York Times bestsellers: Complications, Better, The Checklist Manifesto, and Being
\nMortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.
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\nHe is the winner of two National Magazine Awards, AcademyHealth\u2019s Impact Award for
\nhighest research impact on healthcare, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Lewis Thomas
\nAward for writing about science.
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\n(Source: http://atulgawande.com/about/)
\nAbout the Book
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\nThe Checklist Manifesto is a book about how the most complex and complicated scenarios
\ncan be better managed with the structured approach of the simple (but powerful) checklist.
\nIt includes examples from operating rooms, flight decks, hurricane recoveries, kitchens and
\nconstruction sites.
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\nAs life and work gets more challenging and specialised, this book documents the practical
\njourney Atul and his team went on to develop a safe surgery checklist to reduce potentially
\nfatal errors in operating theatres which was adopted in hospitals around the world.
\nUltimately the message is one of humility; no matter how experienced or clever you are,
\nthere is always a need for a process and a checklist to aid your own judgement.
\nBIG IDEA 1 (3:30) - Checklist helps save lives and money better than humans. In the ICU having a checklist helps avoid complications on 178 actions for a typical patient per day. In an environment that can be stressful, a checklist helps systematize the process.
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\nIn investment, a checklist is very important in decision making. It helps people make more balance decision without having their emotion get in the way the can cloud the judgement. \xa0Important and critical moments should have a checklist to be systems driven and consistent.
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\nIn this age of complexity, the checklist helps us keep things in check.
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\nBIG IDEA 2 (5:23) - How to checklist. You need to check the checklist with different teams and cultures; know what is important and make sure the language is clear. Confusion can arise if the language is too complicated, too wordy or if there aren\u2019t enough words because it\u2019s too concise.
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\nTwo types of checklist are read/do checklist and the do/confirm checklist. Both types of checklist if well-defined and and well-designed will change the communication of the team in a scenario.
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\nIn designing a checklist it\u2019s important to have the pause point to make sure that there are clear points where the checklist is deployed and clear stages in a process. \xa0Vitally, it\u2019s important to know everyone\u2019s role related to the checklist. Which brings us to...
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BIG IDEA 3 (7:47) - Don't let the leaders run the checklist. For someone who have been doing something for years, ego can get in the way, for having to use a checklist. Know who\u2019s role it is to run the checklist and don\u2019t let that be the leader. While the leader doesn\u2019t run the checklist, their judgement and experience that comes with time allows leaders to use them in a better, more structured way whilst reducing human errors.
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