The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

(read on iPhone)

Airline pilots and astronauts use checklists, why not doctors? Gawande interviews pilots, skyscraper builders, and surgeons. He crafts a checklist for surgery. He explores the use of checklists in many areas. I think he is basically correct, this is a tool that could be of great benefit. It is also not as easy to make a good checklist and validate it as one might think. A short, engaging, and thought provoking book.