I Chose Surgery Because I

If We Took Away The Ability To Put Defibrillators In People In Their Last Years, People Would Be Shouting In The Streets.

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.

And In Stories, Endings Matter.

As Economists Have Often Pointed Out, We Pay Doctors For Quantity, Not Quality. As They Point Out Less Often, We Also Pay Them As Individuals, Rather Than As Members Of A Team Working Together For Their Patients. Both Practices Have Made For Serious Problems.

Just Using A Checklist Requires [doctors] To Embrace Different Values From Ones We've Had, Like Humility, Discipline, Teamwork.