““Back in 2012, the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation along with Consumer Reports, a highly regarded independent, nonprofit consumer organization, introduced Choosing Wisely,68–77 an initiative to reduce unnecessary medical tests and cut costs. When Choosing Wisely was first announced, nine medical professional organizations published their lists of five tests and procedures that they deemed were unnecessary. Of these forty-five recommendations for unneeded tests, twenty-five (56 percent) were related””
![“Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.” quote by Atul Gawande](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/892/atul-gawande-1871_checklists_just-using-a-checklist-requires-doctors_2643341.jpg)
