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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, the best…
• We recruit for attitude and train for skill,
• Good checklists, on the other hand are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most…
• The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to…
• The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect…
• I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be.
• What about regular professionals, who just want to do what they do as well as they can?
• What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world?
• A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit…
• You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a…
• Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that…
• Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.

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