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Summary of The Checklist Manifesto 

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When a surgeon tells you how to do something, you should sit up and take notice! Best-selling author and surgeon, Atul Gawande, reveals his secret to reducing life’s complications and increasing effectiveness — all with the help of a simple checklist. Gawande’s simple surgical checklist has already been celebrated by the World Health Organization as a huge success, helping to reduce the number of surgical infections. Using Gawande’s ideas, it’s entirely possible to create checklists in your own life, ensuring that in-depth tasks are completed correctly and therefore reducing mistakes and time wasted. If you’ve ever wished that life could be less complicated, then you would find this summary of “The Checklist Manifesto” a great read!

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  • Summary of The Checklist Manifesto
  • About the author
  • What is The Checklist Manifesto about?
  • Who should read The Checklist Manifesto
  • Topics in The Checklist Manifesto
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Life never goes the way you plan

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Despite your very best efforts, sometimes things just go wrong. You can try everything you think is going to work. You can plan for disaster and you can think that you’re avoiding problems, but in reality, failure is normal. It’s part of human life. So, no matter how much you plan your life and especially in the work you do, many things can and still do go wrong.
To fail sometimes is to be human. Life rarely goes according to plan. Accept this fact and life will flow more easily.
Atul Gawande is a surgeon by trade, yet has branched out his efforts to help people across the world learn how to improve their lives in several different ways. Bestselling author of “Complications” and “Better”, Gawande has experienced many near misses, failures and success in his surgical career. He notes that although all surgeons have their successes and failures, it’s the shock of the unexpected they talk about most.

Gawande calls this “necessary fallibility”, basically meaning that we can’t control everything in life. Some things are just beyond our control and that opens our eyes to the fact that no matter how hard we train, how much knowledge we have, sometimes we’re going to make mistakes or simply fail.
Necessary fallibility is the understanding that you cannot control everything in the world and sometimes you will make mistakes.
Whilst many things in the world are still beyond our comprehension, it’s important to realize that as a human race, we’ve come a long way too and there are many things that we can strive towards. There is power in this statement because by accepting that sometimes things don’t go to plan and sometimes the unexpected can throw you totally off course, you can free yourself of unnecessary pressure and focus on doing your very best.

Did you know? At least 4000 surgical errors occur in the USA every year.
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Part of being human is the ability to fail

Gawande highlights the fact that as recently as the 1950s, we didn’t know how to prevent the risk of a heart attack and we didn’t really know how to treat one that effectively. As a result, the fatality rate from heart attacks was very high. We also had no clue what to do about high blood pressure and why it is so dangerous.
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How can a simple checklist reduce the chance of failure?

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Aviation and checklists work hand in hand

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Using checklists to make you think twice

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How can checklists be used in the medical world more widely?

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The two types of checklists

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Atul Gawande’s successful checklist trial

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You can use checklists in any industry

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