Going to disagree hard here, numerous studies have shown checklists improve patient outcome. Similarly, they improve safety in numerous industries. And requiring two person sign off on dangerous actions in the hospital also improves outcomes. Sure, following these practices is helpful in a lawsuit, but primarily because they are best practices.
I'm pretty sure that the person you're replying to isn't making a claim about the utility of checklists but the content of the enumerated checklist items.
>The only reason is people love to sue for anything in this country
People "love to sue" in this country because the court system was designed to be THE place where problems are solved. Can't have a federal agency who's job it is to make sure hospitals don't kill people, that would be tyranny, better make everyone sue them instead.
This affects everything in the US. It only affects hospitals worse because the US cost of healthcare is so stupidly artificially inflated that you have to sue for very minor things so you can pay the $40k it takes for some basic physical therapy.
