Gawande, Atul

Social, legal and personal imperatives drive us to condemn people who make serious mistakes and harm others. Our gut feeling, however much systems thinking we have absorbed, is that this is just appalling and the person concerned must be brought to book. Atul Gawande, an American surgeon, explores this theme, after a description or his own involvement in a near disaster ... 

Complications A Surgeons Notes on an Imperfect Science, by Atul Gawande, Picador, 2003. 

Atul Gawande (2009), the author of The Checklist Manifesto, the book that describes the surgery checklist study, stated that The checklist gets the dumb stuff out of the way, the routines your brain shouldn t have to occupy itself with. This prompts me to ask two questions ... 

Atul Gawande, "Annals of Medicine The Checklist," New Yorker, December 10, 2007 pp. 86-95. "Doctors are supposed to (1) wash their hands with soap, (2) clean the patient s skin with chlo-rhexidine antiseptic, (3) put sterile drapes over the entire patient, (4) wear a sterile mask, hat, gown, and gloves, and (5) put a sterile dressing over the catheter site once the line is in."... 

Atul Gawande, Jerome Groopman, and other physician-authors have written powerfully and persuasively about patient safety, educating the public about the complex issues involved and enabling patients to better attend to their own safety. 

Atul Gawande, Complications A Surgeon s Notes on An Imperfect Science (New York Metropolitan Books, 2002). 

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