Modern doctors are arguably the most hyper-educated professionals in the world, requiring eight years of higher education, followed by three to 10 years of residency and subspecialty training. And yet ...

Dr. Atul Gawande’s new book, “The Checklist Manifesto,” grew out of research that the surgeon and author did for the World Health Organization on ways to reduce surgical deaths worldwide. Gawande’s ...

Ah, there’s little more annoying than the zeal of a new convert, is there? I know, but I hope you can bear with me while I gush about this book, “The Checklist Manifesto,” by author-surgeon Atul ...

Speaking about dealing with unexpected challenges in medicine, Atul Gawande — a surgeon who writes for The New Yorker when he's not at his day job at Harvard Medical School — relates a story about a ...

One of the most important, but often seen as superfluous, steps in his Surgical Safety Checklist is to make sure everyone in the operating room knows each other by name. Gawande found that when ...

AMY GOODMAN: Our guest is Dr. Atul Gawande, surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, staff writer at The New Yorker magazine, associate professor at Harvard Medical School. His latest book ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Chapter 1. THE PROBLEM OF EXTREME COMPLEXITY Some time ago I read a case report in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery. It was, in the dry prose of a medical ...