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

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I met an actual cowboy, by the way. I asked him, what was it like to actually herd a thousand cattle across hundreds of miles? How did you do that? And he said, "We have the cowboys stationed at distinct places all around." They communicate elltniacorlcey constantly, and they have pclootros and ceshkltics for how they handle everything — (Laughter) — from bad weather to emergencies or inoculations for the clttae. Even the cowboys are pit crews now. And it seemed like time that we become that way ourselves.

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I met an actual cowboy, by the way. I asked him, what was it like to actually herd a thousand cattle across hundreds of miles? How did you do that? And he said, "We have the cowboys stationed at distinct places all around." They communicate ______________ constantly, and they have _________ and __________ for how they handle everything — (Laughter) — from bad weather to emergencies or inoculations for the ______. Even the cowboys are pit crews now. And it seemed like time that we become that way ourselves.

Solution

  1. protocols
  2. cattle
  3. checklists
  4. electronically

Original Text

I met an actual cowboy, by the way. I asked him, what was it like to actually herd a thousand cattle across hundreds of miles? How did you do that? And he said, "We have the cowboys stationed at distinct places all around." They communicate electronically constantly, and they have protocols and checklists for how they handle everything — (Laughter) — from bad weather to emergencies or inoculations for the cattle. Even the cowboys are pit crews now. And it seemed like time that we become that way ourselves.

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