The Checklist Manifesto

Acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy to tackle immensely complex problems with the humblest of techniques the checklist. In riveting stories Gawande takes us from Austria where an emergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hour underwater to Michigan where a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection. And he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine from disaster response to investment banking skyscraper construction and business of all kinds. About the Author Atul 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.