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...drugs and 4,000 procedures. But surgeon and author Atul Gawande says the very vastness of our knowledge gets in the way: doctors make errors because they simply can't remember it all. The solution, he outlines in his new book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, isn't fancier technology or more training. It's as simple as an old-fashioned checklist, like those used by pilots, restaurateurs and construction engineers. When his research team introduced one in eight hospitals in 2008, major surgery complications dropped 36% and deaths plunged 47%. Gawande talked to TIME about...
...irony however, is that the Somalis who make up Hassan's community are fleeing one basket case country for what is increasingly another. "Yemen isn't a state - it's never been a fully functioning state in terms of a central government that actually provides services to its people," says one foreign aid official who wished to remain anonymous due the sensitivity of his job. For that reason, the residents of Bassatine say they're forced to rely on the generosity of community members and local NGOs to make ends meet; the government - though relatively welcoming, they say - simply...