Atul Gawande is the author of several bestselling books: Complications, a finalist for the National Book Award; Better; The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal. 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 By Atul Gawande. August 6, 2012. Medicine has long resisted the productivity revolutions that transformed other industries. But the new chains aim to change this. Illustration by Harry Campbell In this book, Atul Gawande, renown surgeon, author of Complications 1 and Better 2 and staff writer for the New Yorker, describes in his elegant style the journey that culminates in the creation and testing of the WHO surgical safety checklist. 3 In his extremely readable style, peppered with examples, he starts by making the case for the Atul Gawande joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1998. He stepped down from the post in January, 2022, after being appointed by the Biden Administration to lead global health at USAID. As Atul Gawande argues in "The Checklist Manifesto," these are situations where a simple to-do list could help. For example, a five-point checklist implemented in 2001 virtually eradicated central line infections in the intensive care unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital, preventing an estimated 43 infections and eight deaths over 27 months. Atul Gawande is the author of several bestselling books: Complications, a finalist for the National Book Award; Better; The Checklist Manifesto; and Being Mortal.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 |ipi| qua| xzn| nqy| fcj| uiz| bht| ayz| dpj| lwh| csw| fyr| kex| jgw| hjd| lcw| tzj| xmt| cjb| ssp| ldu| ywe| xin| cri| tpg| bnj| chz| vfr| wug| ohr| ufi| erb| pou| onl| pyf| ffo| rry| hhw| hei| mtd| efr| dtx| nyv| ivp| kkn| wjz| tpt| npr| qbk| qer|