The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

Gawande's argument is devastating in its simplicity: most avoidable deaths in surgery happen not from ignorance but from failure to execute what is already known. The aviation industry solved this with checklists; medicine refused to, out of professional pride. He introduces the WHO surgical checklist and documents lives saved. The subtext is never stated directly but is everywhere: how many died before this in the name of expertise?