I have begun a very well written book which has been highly recommended by friends who are in several, diverse, complex fields. The author is a surgeon who also writes often for the New Yorker magazine and he writes beautifully. To emphasize his points he includes absolutely fascinating surgical stories from around the world of things gone right and things gone wrong. The title is one that normally would get me to not look twice at a book, but this one deserves a long read because the information in it can prevent errors in health care within homes and shelters, and also prevent errors in veterinary hospitals. From his own field's perspective he points out in examples and solutions that many surgeons are highly competent but since surgery is so complex with so many steps it is possible to overlook things, or make errors which can be eliminated with different habits and checklists. _The Checklist Manifesto_ author: Atul Gawande ISBN: 978-0-8050-9174-8 publisher: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, LLC 2009 Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://www.miamiferret.org/ http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html all ferret topics: http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html HAPPY: http://www.6footsix.com/my_weblog/2010/01/high-fives-for-happiness.html "All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow." (2010, Steve Crandall) [Posted in FML 6630]
