Atul Gawande

Books

• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
  

Articles

• The Checklist   view details
  "Pronovost and his colleagues monitored what happened for a year afterward. The results were so dramatic that they werent sure whether to believe them: the ten-day line-infection rate went from eleven per cent to zero. So they followed patients for fifte

• Cost is the spectre haunting health reform   view details
  "For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage. Those gaps have widened to become graves - resulting in an estimated forty-five thousand premature deaths each year..."

• Slow Ideas: Some innovations spread fast. How do you speed the ones that don’t?   view details
  "In our era of electronic communications, we’ve come to expect that important innovations will spread quickly. Plenty do: think of in-vitro fertilization, genomics, and communications technologies themselves. But there’s an equally long list of vital innovations that have failed to catch on. The puzzle is why."