Medical Innovations: Atul Gawande on Checklists

Sometimes the most effective innovations are the simplest: New Yorker writer and Harvard Medical School professor Atul Gawande talks with Charlie Rose about hospital staffs' amazing ability to save lives through 90-second surgical checklists. Watch more here.

Updated 04.25.17 11:36AM ET / Published 11.30.09 4:39AM ET

Sometimes the most effective innovations are the simplest: New Yorker writer and Harvard Medical School professor Atul Gawande talks with Charlie Rose about hospital staffs' amazing ability to save lives through 90-second surgical checklists. Watch more here.