How to Get Things Right, by Atul Gawande. Metropolitan, 209 pp., $24. Sometimes a deeply complex problem has a deceptively simple answer. That is the underlying message of Atul Gawande's "The ...

What's a low-tech way to improve the performance of everyone from doctors to investors to airline pilots? According to Atul Gawande, it's the humble checklist. Gawande, a surgeon who is also a staff ...

Back in 2009, a well-received book was published, “The Checklist Manifesto,” by Atul Gawande, a surgeon, author and public health researcher. The book promotes the use of developing and utilizing ...

At the talk “The Death of the Master Builder: A Story of Risk, Medicine, and Skyscrapers,” Atul Gawande built on the ideas he elucidated in his 2007 article, “The Checklist,” about the surprising ...

Ten years ago, checklists for surgeons were all the rage. Inspired by the preflight routines of airline pilots, surgical checklists were shown to prevent tragic errors, reduce infections and save ...

Could the straightforward checklists used by airline pilots also help save lives in the operating room? Dr. Atul Gawande's book, "The Checklist Manifesto," examines how lists can reduce risk in the ...

In the ten years since Dr. Atul Gawande published The Checklist Manifesto, the use of checklists has proliferated in fields from medicine to investing. Gawande, a surgeon, made a particular focus on ...

Every day, people rely on highly skilled professionals to recall from memory a litany of information which helps them assess conditions, use their judgment, and respond accordingly. It should come as ...

The New Yorker’s Atul Gawande wrote one of the most influential stories about health care in 2009. The piece, published in June, was about geographic disparities in health spending, specifically why ...

Dr. Atul Gawande is best known as a surgeon and a writer, but it’s his experience running a Boston-based health research program that may be most relevant to his new role as chief executive of the ...