The Checklist That Saved Ten Thousand Lives

In 2008, surgeon Atul Gawande stood before the World Health Organization with an audacious claim: a simple two-minute checklist could prevent thousands of surgical deaths worldwide. Seasoned surgeons scoffed. They had trained for over a decade — they didn't need a reminder to wash their hands or confirm which knee to operate on. But Gawande had seen the data. Across operating rooms from Tanzania to Toronto, the same preventable errors kept killing patients — wrong surgical site, forgotten allergies, unsterile instruments.…