The Checklist Manifesto: how to get things right Book Review Gawande, A. (2010). The checklist manifesto: how to get things right (Vol. 200). New York: Metropolitan Books. The checklist manifesto is a book that inspires responsibility, organization, and order. It is thought provoking, yet genuinely easy to read. Atul Gawande, a leading narrator and a general surgeon in Boston, intricately constructed thoughts on the problems and challenges of modern medicine. His narration of the book starts with his personal experiences, and later on turns into a description of the complexities of medicine in our hospitals today. For a visual learner, the narrative of real-life experiences, allows to understand the concepts of errors of ignorance …show more content…
Two weeks later, the child was out of the hospital and two years later, the child had normal function. Most importantly, no one gave up on the child, and that was a valuable lesson. Medicine is constantly changing and fluctuating. Once upon a time, physicians enjoyed healing, curing, thinking, processing, researching, and taking matters to the next level. However, today different aspects of health care systems burden physicians to the point that they have reduced their personal checklists to four or five items. In fact, if four out of the five are ok, then the patient goes home, and the physician receives payment. This corrupt system is precisely what Ezequiel Emanuel focused on in his book "Reinventing American Health Care”. One idea Gawande and Emanuel have in common is that Emanuel considers that there is a need for transformation of efficient practices that increases efficiency in the delivery of services. Similarly, Gawande finds that the use of a checklist can be a tool that can encourage efficiency in physicians. Additionally, Emanuel’s perspective is that there is a problem in the health care system and that a reform can fix this. In the same field, Gawande considers that our health system is piecemealed