The key is a, does the checklist? Have them stop before the incision. The main barrier since then has been that it either becomes a a tick box efor or no one uses it at all. It was designed to turn people's brain on by enabling a conversation about critical events and concerns of the operation. We found a forty seven % reduction in death when the teams took up the check list.
The surgeon, researcher, and celebrated writer joined Tyler for a conversation on why Watson will never diagnose your illness, what George Church’s narcolepsy teaches us about CRISPR, what’s missing in medical education, Michael Crichton’s cultural influence, Knausgård versus Ferrante, indie music, and the thing that makes Gawande “bawl like a baby.”
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Recorded June 12th, 2017 Other ways to connect