The volume and complexity of knowledge today has exceeded out ability as individuals to properly deliver it to people—consistently, correctly, safely. The author Atul shows how producing a ninety-second checklist for complex world of surgery would reduce deaths and complications by more than one-third at virtually no cost and for almost any kind of operation.

The checklist cna be very power and bring striking improvement in various fields beyond medications.

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 lives with his wife and three children in Newton, Massachusetts. Visit Atul Gawande's website at www.Gawande.com.