Description
Acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy to tackleimmensely complex problems with the humblest of techniques: thechecklist. In riveting stories, Gawande takes us from Austria, where anemergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hourunderwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive careunits virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection. And he followsthe checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disasterresponse to investment banking, skyscraper construction and businessof all kinds. About the AuthorAtul Gawande is the author of three bestselling books: Complications, a finalist for the National Book Award; Better, selected by Amazon.com as one of the ten best books of 2007; and The Checklist Manifesto. He is also a surgeon at Brigham and Women?s Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for the New Yorker, and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, a MacArthur Fellowship, and two National Magazine Awards. In his work in public health, he is Director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health system innovation, and Chairman of Lifebox, a charity making surgery safer globally. He lives with his wife and three children in Newton, Massachusetts.
