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Gawande 'The Checklist Manifesto': Handling Complexity

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Gawande overall, states the importance of using a checklist in his book The Checklist Manifesto connecting to the problem of extreme complexity. In this modern world complexity can hit hard and danger patients for example, the medical field. Medicine becomes complex as there can be ways on how medicine is prepared or when it needs to be used. Handling complexity brings up a solution that splits up tasks and gives the tasks to different specialties. However as mention in The Checklist Manifesto, “But even divided up, the work can become over whelming (Gawande 20). This can get worst as team work and communication can be disrupted. The different specialists might be seen as a hierarchy which can worsen communication to the point where a doctor doesn’t follow a nurse’s suggestion for the idea that a doctor knows what they are doing. …show more content…

The idea of practice makes perfect can be inspiring to those who want to succeed. However Gladwell mentions, “That’s on a par with Bill Gates getting unlimited access to a time-share terminal at age thirteen (Gladwell 66). Gladwell mentions that the reason most of these people are so successful is just luck. Luck and luck where opportunities are just thrown at someone. The 10, 000-hour rule does have the right point to tell people that hard work does pay off which it does. But, according to Gladwell luck can also just be the reason for success. How it connects to problem of extreme complexity is that the 10,000-hour rule shows that practicing for hours can help someone become an expert on a certain field but the complexity of reaching to the expert level does take time but also opportunities which revolves around internships or other opportunities s that can lead go success. The point that complexity can be a barrier to those who don’t get a lucky opportunity, but rely on their amount of hours of

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