Starting Over

Remember my new years resolution to read more?  Remember this?  Well, it all went downhill as I got further into Little Bee.  Turns out, the basis for the story is incredibly sad.  As my only real down-time for reading is right before bed, and considering I've developed a nasty habit of overthinking books (also: tv shows, movies, stories I've read online, etc.), I decided to leave Little Bee for another time--say, perhaps, when I'm on a tropical vacation, sipping a margarita, looking at the world through rose-colored glasses.

Instead, I picked up the newest book by my all-time favorite author, Atul Gawande. 

Aside from being a surgeon at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, he's a New Yorker contributor and and author of two previous books about health care.  His most recent book, The Checklist Manifesto, looks at the use of the simple checklist in complex settings (like hospitals).  So far, it's awesome.  You can read the introduction and first chapter here.

P.S. If you like watching "Mystery Diagnosis" and don't get grossed out too easily, this is the article that got me hooked on Atul Gawande and sparked my interest in medicine.