Writing Lets You Step Back And Think

In Every Industrialized Nation, The Movement To Reform Health Care Has Begun With Stories About Cruelty.

We've Created A Multitrillion-dollar Edifice For Dispensing The Medical Equivalent Of Lottery Tickets - And Have Only The Rudiments Of A System To Prepare Patients For The Near Certainty That Those Tickets Will Not Win. Hope Is Not A Plan, But Hope Is Our Plan.

Writing Lets You Step Back And Think Through A Problem. Even The Angriest Rant Forces The Writer To Achieve A Degree Of Thoughtfulness.

Good Checklists, On The Other Hand Are Precise. They Are Efficient, To The Point, And Easy To Use Even In The Most Difficult Situations. They Do Not Try To Spell Out Everything--a Checklist Cannot Fly A Plane. Instead, They Provide Reminders Of Only The Most Critical And Important Steps--the Ones That Even The Highly Skilled Professional Using Them Could Miss. Good Checklists Are, Above All, Practical.

When [disease] Can't Be Stopped, That's Where We Become Lost.