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 Apr. 25, 2017 11:36AM ET / Published Nov. 30, 2009 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.