Expertise Is The Mantra Of Modern Medicine.

You Know, 97 Percent Of The Time, If You Come Into A Hospital, Everything Goes Well. But Three Percent Of The Time, We Have Major Complications.

Checklists Turn Out...to Be Among The Basic Tools Of The Quality And Productivity Revolution In Aviation, Engineering, Construction - In Virtually Every Field Combining High Risk And Complexity. Checklists Seem Lowly And Simplistic, But They Help Fill In For The Gaps In Our Brains And Between Our Brains.

Practice Is Funny That Way. For Days And Days, You Make Out Only The Fragments Of What To Do. And Then One Day You've Got The Thing Whole. Conscious Learning Becomes Unconscious Knowledge, And You Cannot Say Precisely How.

Expertise Is The Mantra Of Modern Medicine.

Culture Matters. Of Course, If Physicians Are Rewarded Or Penalized For Their Service And Results, The Culture Will Change. But The Key Values We Doctors Are Being Pressed To Embrace Are Humility, Teamwork, And Discipline.