(2010-03-05) Udell Gawande Checklists

Jon Udell on Atul Gawande's Checklist Manifesto.

Now that knowledge is abundant the enemy is no longer ignorance but rather ineptitude — the failure to marshal and apply what we know.

But it was shocking for the medical teams to discover that simple and basic procedures, which they thought were being carried out with 100% fidelity, in fact weren’t.