The Checklist Manifesto is an interesting book by Mr (dr) Atul Gawande. It is surprising that many surgeons like to be called by their names while physicians always prefer Dr!
That Dr Atul is a general surgeon specialising in Endocrine Cancers surgeries is something you get to know only after a couple of chapters!
On top of that, in spite of the seriously medical input in the first couple of chapters, the book is actually about increasing efficacy in your professional world!
In the introduction he tells how the age of specialisation has grown so much that one fine day you would have a doctor who has specialised in the RIGHT ear while another one in the LEFT! You can imagine the same with the eyes!
For now the average Otologist is specialised in both the ears so you are safe!
But this craze for specialisation is well, crazy!
There were times when we feel like having a coffee outside, all we need is to ask for either sugar less or normal! By the way in Bengaluru, sugar less does not mean without sugar! But with less sugar! If you do not want sugar you have to say; no sugar!
But now when I was with some friends going to the coffee shop for a well, coffee! There is nothing like just coffee! With so many choices, I never get what I want which is of course just coffee!
This complex specialisation brings about the very big problem of selection! Atul then tells about this great air competition with Boeing and the US army! One of the airplane was so complex that the pilot just could not handle it and crashed!
This is when the mandatory checklist system was introduced! You must remember that human brain though an amazing creation with amazing power is still mortal! If it has to process too many things then it gets very difficult! The solution is to have a checklist! Now you have this standard checklist before any flight which is why aviation has become so safe! Everything starts with a simple thing which makes a big change!
Like a simple man with clear thought and true nationalism would rise to become a great freedom fighter in spite of being just a young lad less than 25 years while old blokes were making talks!
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