How to Get Things Right, by Atul Gawande. Metropolitan, 209 pp., $24. Sometimes a deeply complex problem has a deceptively simple answer. That is the underlying message of Atul Gawande's "The ...

Dr. Gawande is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Woman’s Hospital in Boston. His 2009 book, “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right,” champions the use of checklists to prevent ...

Surgeon and MacArthur fellow Gawande applies his gift for dulcet prose to medical and ethical dilemmas in this collection of 12 original and previously published essays adapted from theNew England ...

In his best selling book The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande, 44, makes a compelling case for using simple checklists in medicine and other fields. Here are the two reasons Gawande is one of the ...

The New Yorker’s Atul Gawande wrote one of the most influential stories about health care in 2009. The piece, published in June, was about geographic disparities in health spending, specifically why ...

Speaking about dealing with unexpected challenges in medicine, Atul Gawande — a surgeon who writes for The New Yorker when he's not at his day job at Harvard Medical School — relates a story about a ...