Boorman puts him in a flight simulator and throws an exploding cargo door at him on takeoff.
“For nearly all of history, people’s lives have been governed primarily by ignorance,” writes Dr. Gawande. But sometime over the last several decades–and it is only over the last several decades–science has filled in enough knowledge to make ineptitude as much our struggle as ignorance. In particular, the practice of medicine and especially surgery has…
