What do you think about systematizing medicine?

[easilydoctor]

Atul Gawande seems to be trying to shift the milieu of medicine towards this idea that the whole should be focused on rather than the parts. Is there a lack of system and a disproportionate emphasis on specialization in the US?


Here is his recent Stanford University School of Medicine commencement speech.


Which is a summary of the ideas in his most recent book The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right.


Any thoughts?

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