Atul Gawande
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
EPISODE 183
Atul Gawande is a renowned American surgeon, writer, and public health leader. He was a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker magazine and has written four New York Times best-selling books: The Checklist Manifesto, was Gawande's third book, The released in 2009. It discusses the importance of organization and preplanning (such as thorough checklists) in both medicine and the larger world. The Checklist Manifesto reached the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list in 2010.
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.
INTRO
Atul Gawande introduces us to the idea of checklists making experts better, and teams closer
The value of checklists (3m26)
IMPORTANCE AND DIFFICULTY OF CHECKLISTS
Atul discusses why checklists and systems seem to be a different path to what we are used to, as it forces different values to what we’re used to
Resistance to checklists (1m55)
Atul tells the story of medical teams working together, step-by-step like a pit crew, in order to save a life
The Frozen Girl (4m02)
SET GOALS
Brain from Optimize tells Atul’s story of Van Halen, and how daily checklists help us deliver a higher level of excellence
Brown M&Ms (2m55)
OUTRO
Atul closes the show by revealing we need a different way of thinking to make ourselves better
Accept your fallibility (2m54)
READING LIST