Hello and welcome to the latest episode of your favourite Podcast, The Mostly Paperback Show, with me, Bangalore Sundar.

Today I am going to speak about the charming little book, 'The Checklist Manifesto'.

It is not often that we come across a book about something that is as humble as a checklist. However, in around 200 pages, the author, Dr. Atul Gawande, makes a passionate plea for the universal adoption of the checklist.

With compelling anecdotes from fields as diversified as Construction, Investment banking,  Aviation and his own, Healthcare, Dr. Gawande  convinces us about the  benefits and importance of the Checklist.

About the book and the author:

The Checklist Manifesto is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, and San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller.

Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, is a surgeon, writer, and public health leader. He is a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is the founder and chair of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and of Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. He is also chairman of Haven, where he was CEO from 2018 to 2020.

Atul has also been staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1998 and written four New York Times best selling books: Complications, Better, The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. He is the winner of two National Magazine Awards, Academy Health’s Impact Award for highest research impact on healthcare, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Lewis Thomas Award for writing about science.

Courtesy : www.atulgawande.com