One of the top ten greatest doctors in the world looks at the lowly checklist, and how this simple idea - which is free to reproduce - will revolutionise the way we approach problems, and help save lives.

Informationen zum Autor Atul Gawande is the author of three previous 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 . His current book, Being Mortal , was a New York Times Bestseller. 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 2014, he delivered the BBC Reith Lectures. In his work in public health, he is director of Ariadne Labs, a joint centre for health system innovation, and chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit organisation making surgery safer globally. He and his wife have three children and live in Newton, Massachusetts. Klappentext Subtitled, "How To Get Things Right". Dr Gawande makes the case for using the lowly checklist to help approach problems in all areas of life. Explains how breaking down problems into small steps can save lives in the field of medicine. 'Gawande is a gorgeous writer and storyteller, and the aims of this book are ambitious' Malcolm Gladwell One of the top ten greatest doctors in the world looks at the lowly checklist, and how this simple idea - which is free to reproduce - will revolutionise the way we approach problems, and help save lives. Zusammenfassung One of the top ten greatest doctors in the world looks at the lowly checklist, and how this simple idea - which is free to reproduce - will revolutionise the way we approach problems, and help save lives. Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly place in the hands of the most highly skilled people.

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Atul Gawande is the author of three previous 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. His current book, Being Mortal, was a New York Times Bestseller. 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 2014, he delivered the BBC Reith Lectures. In his work in public health, he is director of Ariadne Labs, a joint centre for health system innovation, and chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit organisation making surgery safer globally. He and his wife have three children and live in Newton, Massachusetts.

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Subtitled, "How To Get Things Right". Dr Gawande makes the case for using the lowly checklist to help approach problems in all areas of life. Explains how breaking down problems into small steps can save lives in the field of medicine. 'Gawande is a gorgeous writer and storyteller, and the aims of this book are ambitious' Malcolm Gladwell