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There is much talk these days about the recent yearlong study revealing that surgeons following a 19-step checklist in the operating room can reduce the rate of deaths and complications by one-third. But what does the checklist mean for our current understanding of communication and collaboration in the clinic?

The yearlong, eight-nation project lead by Atul Gawande, [...]

“A culture of separation will collapse of its own incoherence. We need communities of memory that experience time as a continuous flow, a shared rhythm.” -Robert Bellah, Habits of the Heart
 
Time is precious. And because doctors provide services to one person after another, it can be a grind. You can lose your larger sense of purpose [...]