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I heard an interview on NPR with a surgeon who asked other surgeons to use checklists in there operating rooms. Most didn't want to. He convinced some to try them out anyway.
(If you're like me, at this point you need time to get over your shock that surgeons don't use checklists. I mean, it's not like they're doing something serious, like flying a plane or extracting a protein, right?)
After trying them out, 80% said they would like to continue to use checklists. 20% said they still didn't want to use checklists.
So he asked them, If they had surgery, would they want their surgeon to use a checklist? 94% said they would want their surgeon to use a checklist.
Link: Checklists (previously discussed on LW).
NPR link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122226184
After reading the original link I have this to comment:
The interesting part is that the surgeon who did the study didn't himself expect the checklist to make any difference and was resisting its use. But after starting to use it himself he noticed a massive improvement in his results.