"Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace……" — Atul Gawande
"Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork."
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58 Quotes by Atul Gawande
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Having great components is not enough, and yet we've been obsessed in medicine with components. We want the best drugs,…
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We recruit for attitude and train for skill,
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Good checklists, on the other hand are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in…
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The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments…
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The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in…
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I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted…
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What about regular professionals, who just want to do what they do as well as they can?
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What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world?
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A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will…
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You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to…
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Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and…
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At times, in medicine, you feel you are inside a colossal and impossibly complex machine whose gears will turn for…
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I told Khaled you the best but I'm the bestest. Better run for cover if your name is on my…
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That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced…
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I don't think we're ever going to be in a position where we can say this is the template, this…
— Peter MacKay
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My dad, I still think, had the most beautiful, simple checklist for what you should do in life: Do something…
— Diane Sawyer
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I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I…
— Alan Shepard
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Good checklists, on the other hand are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in…
— Atul Gawande
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It’s all too easy to turn the fight of faith into sanctification-by-checklist. Take care of a few bad habits, develop…
— Kevin DeYoung
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You need a different checklist and different mental models for different companies. I can never make it easy by saying,…
— Charlie Munger
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No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.
— Charlie Munger
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An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can…
— David Berlinski
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Anyone who ever loves anyone truly loves them because of their indefinable essence, not because they conform to some checklist.
— Unknown Author
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To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for…
— Harry Callahan
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