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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, [...]

“What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.” (William Blake, poet).
If I was to ask you what it meant to be a surgeon [...]