Comments on: In-Situ Procedural Guidance: Saving Lives with a Checklist http://brianpagan.net/2010/in-situ-procedural-guidance-saving-lives-with-a-checklist/ Brian Pagán's take on User Experience Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:38:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brian http://brianpagan.net/2010/in-situ-procedural-guidance-saving-lives-with-a-checklist/#comment-3 Brian Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:52:46 +0000 http://blog.brianpagan.net/?p=46#comment-3 Victoria, I agree that checklists alone are too simple to be used as the sole source of guidance or documentation for complex activities like medicine, surgery, or flying. Their purpose is rather to supplement already-available expertise, documentation, and other materials to ensure that details are not forgotten or skipped, especially in stressful situations where the danger of such oversight is higher than usual. If anything, increased complexity of the things we do make expertise more important, as well as the notion of supplements like checklists. What kinds of supplementary information do healers use? -Brian Victoria,

I agree that checklists alone are too simple to be used as the sole source of guidance or documentation for complex activities like medicine, surgery, or flying. Their purpose is rather to supplement already-available expertise, documentation, and other materials to ensure that details are not forgotten or skipped, especially in stressful situations where the danger of such oversight is higher than usual. If anything, increased complexity of the things we do make expertise more important, as well as the notion of supplements like checklists.

What kinds of supplementary information do healers use?

-Brian

]]> By: Victoria http://brianpagan.net/2010/in-situ-procedural-guidance-saving-lives-with-a-checklist/#comment-2 Victoria Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:30:12 +0000 http://blog.brianpagan.net/?p=46#comment-2 I wish I had seen this last week before my essay on how healers culturally construct disease! Seems like a fascinating book that I must read. Although I too like simple soutions to the complex, I fear it may be a rather mechanistic approach for medicine. May apply to surgeons, but for physicians the complexity of considering biological, socio-economic and individual factors (such as values, lifestyle and personal experience) remains hard to prioritise. Recommend AnneMarie Mol's ethnography of Dutch hospitals, "The Body Multiple". I wish I had seen this last week before my essay on how healers culturally construct disease! Seems like a fascinating book that I must read. Although I too like simple soutions to the complex, I fear it may be a rather mechanistic approach for medicine. May apply to surgeons, but for physicians the complexity of considering biological, socio-economic and individual factors (such as values, lifestyle and personal experience) remains hard to prioritise. Recommend AnneMarie Mol’s ethnography of Dutch hospitals, “The Body Multiple”.

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