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Gawande's original article in the New Yorker is definitely worth a read: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_gawande http://www.newyorke

• projectileboy 17y ago
  If you're interested in the benefits and limitations of checklists, you should definitely pick up the book. It's a quick read, and there's practically a whole chapter dedicated to the time he spent interviewing the guy at Boeing who's responsible for developing checklists for aircraft procedures - both normal and emergency. He goes into more detail about what does and what doesn't make a good checklist, as well as where they can and can't be applied effectively.