Oh how I love to read Atul Gawande’s stuff. Here are some things that I enjoy:
- Read a paraphrased version of the manifesto here.
- Atul Gawande has a number of very interesting articles on his website
- The original Checklist article
- An OpEd he wrote for The New York Times, entitled “A Lifesaving Checklist” which talks about how the Federal Government tried to stop the checklist from moving forward. It’s a good example of how difficult it is to get people to agree to a new process – even if it’s clearly the better thing to do
- Gawande also wrote a great book, Being Mortal, about how getting old is not a disease. This book is pretty amazing because it shows how to use our time and the time of our loved ones (especially the last few years) in the best way possible
- He also has a couple of books, Complications and Better, that pull together his New Yorker stories. It’s all amazing stuff
- And I have to include this wonderful history of surgery. Surgery was all about speed before the invention of anesthesia. Here’s an example of how draconian surgery used to be
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