The checklist was a moderately interesting piece to read. The title had a lot of ambiguity due to the fact that it never tells you what it is a checklist of before you begin to read. The assigned reading felt like a story the way it developed and transitioned from different ways that a checklist in an ICU could have an affect on survival rates. When the author broke down the use of the new airplane by the US government and how a checklist made something deemed too difficult for a human to fly into a completely normal exercise and completely extinguished any mortality rates associated with flying the new plane.