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Acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy to tackle immensely complex problems with the humblest of techniques : the checklist. Through riveting stories, Gawande takes us all across the world as he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disaster response to investment banking, skyscraper construction and business of all kinds. About the Author Atul Gawande is the author of four bestselling books : Complications, a finalist for the National Book Award; Better, selected by Amazon.com as one of the ten best books of 2007; The Checklist Manifesto; and Being Mortal. He is also a surgeon at Brigham and Women�s Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1998, and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has won two National Magazine Awards, a MacArthur Fellowship, and been named one of the world�s 100 most influential thinkers by Foreign Policy and Time. In his work as a public health researcher, he is the director of Ariadne Labs, a joint centre for health system innovation. He is also the co-founder and chairman of Lifebox, a global not-for-profit organization that implements systems and technologies to reduce surgical deaths globally. He and his wife have three children and live in Newton, Massachusetts.