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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 26 October 2010 11:47:33AM 11 points [-]

In re the chilling effects of status: In Gawande's The Checklist Manifesto, he says that one of the valuable effects of checklists is that they enable low status people (like nurses) to tell their "superiors" that some crucial step has been skipped.