There's a great book by Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto, that talks about this transfer of best practices from aviation to surgery (including checklists a

There's a great book by Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto, that talks about this transfer of best practices from aviation to surgery (including checklists and CRM). Informative and entertaining read. I think it's extremely important, because the case of aviation shows that highly trained professionals make mistakes all the time. Now, bad mistakes in aviation are very visible (hard to ignore a crashed passenger jet). However, bad mistakes in surgery result may result in the death of one person that was sick already. So, it's very easy to "overlook" them. I feel much more comfortable in a hospital that uses checklists and CRM.