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Atul Gawande

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Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande is a surgeon, writer, and public health leader known for work on systems, safety, and medical practice.

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Atul Gawande is associated with work that helps practitioners understand how knowledge is created, structured, shared, or acted upon in complex systems.

Their work contributes to the Knowledge Flow library because it offers concepts, practices, or research traditions that make invisible thinking more visible.

Across the library, this person helps connect individual cognition, social coordination, technical design, and institutional behavior to the larger question of how understanding moves through systems.

Relevance to Knowledge Flow

Gawande supports Knowledge Flow by showing how simple structures help knowledge become reliable action.

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Work by Atul Gawande

Book

The Checklist Manifesto

How to Get Things Right

Complex work fails when essential knowledge is not reliably enacted. The Checklist Manifesto shows how simple structures can support attention, coordination, and safer performance in high-stakes environments.

Knowledge Flow

  • Knowledge Skills