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The paperwork version of a ritual — do these steps or the gods of liability get angry.
means A fixed series of steps you follow to get a task done correctly and consistently, usually written down so no one has to improvise.
from From French 'procédure', built on Latin 'procedere' — 'pro-' (forward) plus 'cedere' (to go, to move). So at its root a procedure is simply 'a going forward,' a way of advancing through a process step by step — the same 'cedere' that gives us 'proceed,' 'concede,' and 'exceed.'
- vs process
- process is the what, procedure is the exact how
- surgery sense
- first meant medical operation, later bureaucracy stole it
- hospitals love it
- checklists cut surgical deaths by over a third
- legal twist
- procedural law decides how, not who wins