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From the Ted Talk by Atul Gawande: How do we heal medicine?

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Could we design a checklist for suergry? Not for the lowest people on the tetom pole, but for the folks who were all the way around the cihan, the entire team including the surgeons. And what they taught us was that designing a checklist to help people handle cplxmoetiy actually involves more difficulty than I had uoeodsntrd. You have to think about things like pause points. You need to identify the moments in a process when you can actually catch a problem before it's a danger and do something about it. You have to identify that this is a before-takeoff checklist. And then you need to fcous on the kilelr items. An aviation checklist, like this one for a single-engine plane, isn't a recipe for how to fly a plane, it's a reminder of the key things that get forgotten or missed if they're not checked.

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Could we design a checklist for _______? Not for the lowest people on the _____ pole, but for the folks who were all the way around the _____, the entire team including the surgeons. And what they taught us was that designing a checklist to help people handle __________ actually involves more difficulty than I had __________. You have to think about things like pause points. You need to identify the moments in a process when you can actually catch a problem before it's a danger and do something about it. You have to identify that this is a before-takeoff checklist. And then you need to _____ on the ______ items. An aviation checklist, like this one for a single-engine plane, isn't a recipe for how to fly a plane, it's a reminder of the key things that get forgotten or missed if they're not checked.

Solution

  1. complexity
  2. chain
  3. killer
  4. understood
  5. totem
  6. surgery
  7. focus

Original Text

Could we design a checklist for surgery? Not for the lowest people on the totem pole, but for the folks who were all the way around the chain, the entire team including the surgeons. And what they taught us was that designing a checklist to help people handle complexity actually involves more difficulty than I had understood. You have to think about things like pause points. You need to identify the moments in a process when you can actually catch a problem before it's a danger and do something about it. You have to identify that this is a before-takeoff checklist. And then you need to focus on the killer items. An aviation checklist, like this one for a single-engine plane, isn't a recipe for how to fly a plane, it's a reminder of the key things that get forgotten or missed if they're not checked.

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  1. aviation
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