Episode 20 in Guatemala

The final filming days of the award-winning documentary The Checklist Effect were not the shortest, simplest or most straightforward. In fact they were as winding as the roads in Guatemala and as revealing as the vistas. Listen to a conversation about literal life and death decisions in the operating theatre. 

Season 2 is supported by Global Health Film

This episode features:

• Lifebox a charity working to make surgery safer globally


• The book Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, available at my bookshop