The article
‘Have you ever made a mistake?’ (page 2442) should be required reading for all professionals – medical and aviation alike.
Although at first it might be seen as an aviation input to medicine, read it again. It is, in the same way, an input to aviation – the common feature being the fundamentals of human behavior, which we strive to shape and control.
A checklist can be a crutch to lean on but not for everything; a checklist can be a tool to shape thinking, or be the bounding guidance for safe behavior.
However, having provisioned a checklist, we must then remember to use it.