The book Checklist Manifesto was written by Atul Gawande, which clarifies how a small, straightforward medical checklist can significantly reduce the chances of death and failure in life.
It is soundly defended and thoughtfully written. This book is for medical professionals to develop or improve patient care by accepting a basic and common sense approach.
After reading, underlying, highlighting and rereading, many takeaways came up from Gawande’s book. A checklist is basically a tool that benefits memory recall rather than a to-do or how-to guide list. It just requires a minimum number of steps to complete a task, which, in turn, releases extra bandwidth for whatever you are working on. Just think about it when you consider how a checklist helps or benefits your own job responsibilities: Johns Hopkins Hospital implemented a simple checklist which saved the hospital $2 million from 11 per cent to zero by a drop in central line infections. This checklist includes the “wear a mask” and “wash hands” — even the most experienced surgeons frequently skipped the crucial steps.
Often, our judgment and memory are unreliable, and a ridiculously simple way to make up for that is a checklist. Fund managers fail to properly examine investment opportunities, doctors forget to wash their hands, and the crisis faced by the pilot in the air causes them to forget protocols that can affect lives. The pilot needs to follow the six key steps to restart the engine when the Cessna aeroplane’s engine loses power in flight. The first and most fascinating step is to fly the aeroplane. Because of the overload of thinking through an emergency, the pilot forgets to follow even a primary task, so if you forget the first step, nothing else follows.
A checklist fosters communication and teamwork. Gawande writes that people don’t work together if they don’t know each other’s names. The ability to problem-solve as a team increases when surgical staff introduce themselves to one another before approaching a 10-blade. So, in future professions, communicating with my patients first by asking about the history and knowing the patient’s name will not only help me to inspect the disease but also provide me with teamwork ability by communicating with my staff about the problems.
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