This post is by Kathleen Cushman, a journalist and educator who for more than 25 years has documented deeper learning in articles, books, and mixed media. Her book with WKCD colleague Barbara Cervone, ...

The best chapter in Atul Gawande's short, splendid book is the last one. He calls it "The Save," and with zero melodrama, the surgeon/author lays bare a case in which he nearly killed a patient, and ...

Modern doctors are arguably the most hyper-educated professionals in the world, requiring eight years of higher education, followed by three to 10 years of residency and subspecialty training. And yet ...

This is a brilliant book about an idea so simple it sounds dumb until you hear the case for it. Atul Gawande presents an argument so strong that I challenge anyone to go away from this book ...

I read The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right eager to be enlightened. I wasn't. Don't get me wrong--it is a good book and likely a worthwhile read for almost anyone outside of industries ...

Ah, there’s little more annoying than the zeal of a new convert, is there? I know, but I hope you can bear with me while I gush about this book, “The Checklist Manifesto,” by author-surgeon Atul ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. As I continue to do my part to evangelize the NIST Cyber Framework, the most ...

I WAS CHATTING with a medical school friend of mine who is now a general surgeon in San Francisco. We were trading war stories, as surgeons are apt to do. One of John’s was about a guy who came in on ...

I WAS CHATTING with a medical school friend of mine who is now a general surgeon in San Francisco. We were trading war stories, as surgeons are apt to do. One of John’s was about a guy who came in on ...