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Small Meeting Room (3rd Floor) (MDGentleReader)… (more) Atul Gawande, author of THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO - Newtonville Lecture Series Atul Gawande promotes The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. This is a ticketed event. Free tickets are available at the bookstore, limit two per person. This event will sell out, so if you would like to attend, please be sure to get a ticket. Tickets will only be distributed in person at the bookstore. No phone calls please. (lemontwist) ATUL GAWANDE ATUL GAWANDE reads from The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. Harvard Book Store is delighted to welcome surgeon and public health policy advocate ATUL GAWANDE as he discusses his new book The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies‚ neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication. Now innovative checklists are being adopted in hospitals around the world, helping doctors and nurses respond to everything from flu epidemics to avalanches. Even in the immensely complex world of surgery, a simple ninety-second variant has cut the rate of fatalities by more than a third. In riveting stories, Gawande takes us from Austria, where an emergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hour underwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection. He explains how checklists actually work to prompt striking and immediate improvements. And he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from homeland security to investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds. (ablachly)… (more) Book Group Discussion with Liz Whaley! Atul Gawande , Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. Water Street Bookstore hosts a book group discussion held at the Loaf and Ladle one Sunday of each Month at 3 p.m. This month's selection is Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande. Please join Liz Whaley for a great discussion on Sunday. For more information call us at 603 778 9731. (booksense)… (more)
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