We Recruit For Attitude And Train For

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

If We Took Away The Ability To Put Defibrillators In People In Their Last Years, People Would Be Shouting In The Streets.

No Travel Ban Or Quarantine Will Seal A Country Completely. Even If Travel Could Be Reduced By Eighty Per Cent-itself A Feat-models Predict That New Transmissions Would Be Delayed Only A Few Weeks. Worse, It Would Only Drive An Increase In The Number Of Cases At The Source. Health-care Workers Who Have Fallen Ill Would Not Be Able To Get Out For Treatment, And The International Health Personnel Needed To Quell The Outbreak Would No Longer Be Able To Go In.

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.

Better Is Possible. It Does Not Take Genius. It Takes Diligence. It Takes Moral Clarity. It Takes Ingenuity. And Above All, It Takes A Willingness To Try.