"Thanks to a friend and fellow family caregiver, I just discovered a fascinating book, The Checklist Manifesto, by surgeon Atul Gawande. My friend is a nurse, and people who work in medicine are talking about this book because Gawande, who practices at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, teaches medicine at Harvard, and writes for The New Yorker, is making such surprising discoveries that they're changing the way medicine is practiced."