204: A Real WHO's Who

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On Sunday August 30, we were joined by regular CNN medical correspondent Dr. Martin Makary (left), the Chair of Gastrointestinal Surgery and Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Surgical Outcomes Research. He spoke to us about the work he has done with the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO), with regard to maximizing patient safety and quality of care.

Dr. Makary has in fact authored a number of books about those topics and public health and offered some great insight into the work he does. We particularly enjoyed our discussion of the importance of a simple “checklist” used in surgeries — and how many lives that checklist may now be saving.