Atul Gawande 1: How do we heal medicine?

TED2012
Atul Gawande 1: How do we heal medicine? (transcript)
Summary
What does healing patients mean?
In fact, in medical fields, it turned out that a very small thing could help patients who had died.
It's not developing new medicines or not using much money but creating checklists.
It's not a recipe for how to perform surgery on a patient like flying a plane, it's a reminder of the key things that are forgotten or missed if performers are not checked.
The pause points are, for example, immediately before anesthesia is given, or immediately before the knife hits the skin or immediately before the patient leaves the room. Those led to cutting the infection rate by half, to falling the complication rates 35 percent and to falling the death rates 47 percent.
The reasons those succeed are that people can't implement them because there is too small. People couldn't find where your failures were, couldn't devise solutions and couldn't implement them.
Wonderful fields must be created if your team can do them.
This is the new system that is new values.
From now, we have to embrace it with humility, discipline, and teamwork.
An independence that we built on hard alone, self- sufficiency, and autonomy seemed to create a strong resistance to use new thoughts.

Words in this story
prescription /noun/ prescribe /verb/
(of a medical practitioner) advise and authorize the use of (a medicine or treatment) for someone, especially in writing.
hygiene /noun/  cleanliness, sanitation
anesthesia /noun/ insensitivity to pain, especially as artificially induced by the administration of gases or the injection of drugs before surgical operations.
mortality / death, especially on a large scale.
fatality / an occurrence of death by accident, in war, or from disease.
fertility / productiveness.