What would a checklist for patients look like?
This springs up from a Twitter discussion this morning. It’s Atul Gawande’s fault, for his book “Checklists.”
Forward-thinking clinicians are doing it; participatory patients should to. Let’s get to work. Read more
Saving Lives, Old-School Style
What if there was a simple, old-school style procedure that could save tens of thousands of lives every year?
Better yet, what if it could be implemented at minuscule costs (about $3 million to rollout nationwide), and would require very little change in anyone’s procedure or daily lives?
What if that procedure was something as simple as going down a checklist before running any procedure on a patient?



