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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
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Author
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Atul Gawande.
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Metropolitan/QPB
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paperback
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8.25
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ISBN
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9780739487754
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273/2007
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Daedalus Item Code
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01009
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Description
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The author of the National Book Award finalist Complications, a MacArthur fellow, a general surgeon at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, Atul Gawande is that rare combination of first-rate doctor and gripping essayist. In these 11 pieces and an afterword, Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. His stories of diligence, ingenuity, and what it means to do right by people take us to battlefield surgical tents in Iraq, labor and delivery rooms in Boston, the death chambers of federal prisons, a polio outbreak in India, and malpractice courtrooms around the country. "This is a book about failure: how it happens, how we learn from it, how we can do better. Although its focus is medicine, its message is for everybody.... It has already been described as a modern masterpiece—and so it is."—Independent (UK)
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