Our Ideas Of What Our Priorities Are

Just Using A Checklist Requires [doctors] To Embrace Different Values From Ones We've Had, Like Humility, Discipline, Teamwork.

You Can't Make A Recipe For Something As Complicated As Surgery. Instead, You Can Make A Recipe For How To Have A Team That's Prepared For The Unexpected.

We Have Medicalized Aging, And That Experiment Is Failing Us.

One Of The Reasons People Might Be Fallible, Why We Might Fail To Do What We Try To Do Isignorance, That We Have A Limited Understanding Of The Laws Of The World - The Physical Laws That Govern The World And Of All The Particulars Of The World Upon Which Those Laws Work. And Then There's Ineptitude, Meaning That The Knowledge Is Available, But Individuals Fail To Apply It Correctly. The Third Source Is "necessary Fallibility." That Is, We're Never Going To Be Omniscient, There Is Some Knowledge That We Will Simply Never Achieve, And There Are Limits To What We Will Be Able To Do.

You Want To Ensure People Can Do It Right 99 Percent Of Time. When We Have To Fire One Of Our Surgical Trainees, It Is Never Because They Dont Have The Physical Skills But Because They Dont Have The Moral Skills - To Practise And Admit Failure.