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Why even experts still need short checklists to save lives
A five-step central-line list dropped infections from eleven percent to zero—surgeons, pilots, and managers who trust memory alone should care.
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About Atul Gawande
Atul Atmaram Gawande is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
Everything about Atul Gawande →- Occupation
- medical author, journalist, professor, surgeon
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- November 5, 1965, May 11, 1965
- Website
- http://atulgawande.com/, https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/atul-gawande/