In The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Metropolitan Books, 2010), Atul Gawande, a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in Boston, ...

I WAS CHATTING with a medical school friend of mine who is now a general surgeon in San Francisco. We were trading war stories, as surgeons are apt to do. One of John’s was about a guy who came in on ...

Could the straightforward checklists used by airline pilots also help save lives in the operating room? Dr. Atul Gawande's book, "The Checklist Manifesto," examines how lists can reduce risk in the ...

In The Checklist Manifesto, Harvard surgeon and New Yorker contributor Atul Gawande shows the device’s power to reduce surgical complications by making sure sound protocols are followed. Gawande sees ...