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 ...

A five-step central-line list dropped infections from eleven percent to zero—surgeons, pilots, and managers who trust memory ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. Listen 7:20 Speaking about dealing ...

In the ten years since Dr. Atul Gawande published The Checklist Manifesto, the use of checklists has proliferated in fields from medicine to investing. Gawande, a surgeon, made a particular focus on ...

The New Yorker’s Atul Gawande wrote one of the most influential stories about health care in 2009. The piece, published in June, was about geographic disparities in health spending, specifically why ...

At the talk “The Death of the Master Builder: A Story of Risk, Medicine, and Skyscrapers,” Atul Gawande built on the ideas he elucidated in his 2007 article, “The Checklist,” about the surprising ...

Could the straightforward checklists used by airline pilots also help save lives in the operating room? Dr. Atul Gawande's book, "The Checklist Manifesto," examines how lists can reduce risk in the ...

Atul Gawande is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical SchoolAlyson Aliano We ...

Sticks and stones may break your bones — but if you need surgery, the right words used in the operating room can be more powerful than many drugs. New research published today in the New England ...

Dr. Atul Gawande is best known as a surgeon and a writer, but it’s his experience running a Boston-based health research program that may be most relevant to his new role as chief executive of the ...

Atul Gawande has yet to speak out about his plans for leading the new Amazon-JPMorgan-Berkshire Hathaway health care organization, but his past speeches and writings provide some clues to what he ...

Dr. Atul Gawande is best known as a surgeon and a writer, but it’s his experience running a Boston-based health research program that may be most relevant to his new role as chief executive of the ...