When I Do An Operation, It's Half

Making Systems Work Is The Great Task Of My Generation Of Physicians And Scientists. But I Would Go Further And Say That Making Systems Work - Whether In Healthcare, Education, Climate Change, Making A Pathway Out Of Poverty - Is The Great Task Of Our Generation As A Whole.

Checklists Turn Out...to Be Among The Basic Tools Of The Quality And Productivity Revolution In Aviation, Engineering, Construction - In Virtually Every Field Combining High Risk And Complexity. Checklists Seem Lowly And Simplistic, But They Help Fill In For The Gaps In Our Brains And Between Our Brains.

When [disease] Can't Be Stopped, That's Where We Become Lost.

Man Is Fallible, But Maybe Men Are Less So.

The Possibilities And Probabilities Are All We Have To Work With In Medicine, Though. What We Are Drawn To In This Imperfect Science, What We In Fact Covet In Our Way, Is The Alterable Moment-the Fragile But Crystalline Opportunity For One's Know-how, Ability, Or Just Gut Instinct To Change The Course Of Another's Life For The Better.