This is a review for The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right (Hardcover) by Atul Gawande.
Dr.Atul Gawande is one amazing dude. Let us deviate for a moment to see what his biography on the book sleeve says:
Atul Gawande is the author of The Checklist Manifesto, Better and Complications. He is also a MacArthur Fellow, a general surgeon at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, he also leads the World Health Organization’s Safe Surgery Saves Lives program.
How can one person do all that ? He must be The Dude.
I haven’t read Better and Complications but both books have good reviews on Amazon. However, The Checklist Manifesto falls short of expectations set by the author’s previous achievements. The reason for this is that the book’s message is really thin – checklists are good, they can even save lives. The book is full of anecdotes from the author’s life. It is fun to read those anecdotes but in the back of my mind I kept looking for the author’s insight into creating a good checklist or a sample of one he made or any other kind of advice. But the book just kept on making cases to prove that having a checklist is good and they work (especially in the context of medical profession).
One of the strength of the book is the excellent writing style of the author.
Tangentially this book is an eye opener regarding the working of the surgery room and emergency room in hospitals. Things could go wrong in hundreds of ways. Dr.Atul sums it up very well in his book with this:
we (medical care professionals) are as apt to harm as we are to heal
I also respect him in writing about a surgery he did when the patient almost died because of his “fault”. It requires great strength to admit one’s mistake.
Bottom line is that this book is worth reading for people in medical profession (although checklists could useful in a lot of other situations, this book is probably most useful for medical professionals). I would rate the book 3 out of 5 and would recommend reading Better and Complications.
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