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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performanceby: Atul Gawande  List Price: $29.95 Amazon.com's Price: $21.86 You Save: $8.09 (27%)Prices subject to change. Availability: unknown
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Binding: Audio CDDewey Decimal Number: 616 EAN: 9781427200983 Edition: Unabridged Format: Audiobook, CD ISBN: 142720098X Label: Macmillan Audio Manufacturer: Macmillan Audio Number Of Items: 6 Publication Date: April 03, 2007 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Release Date: April 03, 2007 Studio: Macmillan Audio Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable. Gawande’s gripping stories take us to battlefield surgical tents in Iraq, to delivery rooms in Boston, to a polio outbreak in India, and to malpractice courtrooms around the country. He examines the ethical dilemmas of doctors’ participation in lethal injections, the influence of money on modern medicine, and the astoundingly contentious history of hand-washing. Offering a searingly honest first-hand account of work in a field where mistakes are both unavoidable and unthinkable, Better provides rare insight into the elements of success that illuminates every area of human endeavor. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Atul Probes DeeplyAtul Gwande's "Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance" is a collection of essays that probe skillfully and poignantly into the depths of medical ethics and the performance of doctors. He is a fine researcher and an astute observer who carefully delineates many facets of each issue that he explores, be it washing hands, malpractice concerns, or the Apgar score. As a non-fiction writer, I was acutely aware of how adept Gawande is at using narrative to illustrate and discuss complex moral ... Read More Rating: - Fascinating. Must read. Classic.A fascinating and quick read, in each section there are plenty of inspiring stores about doctors making a difference. Dr. Atul Gawande, a general surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital and staff writer for the New Yorker has keen observation and insight to make single stories demonstrate not only the failings of our healthcare system but also the solutions to them because of individuals asking questions on how to do better. Ultimately, one of the questions he asks is how can doctors and hospitals be ... Read More Rating: - The progress of medical scienceLike another Amazon reviewer, I found this book to be the best book written about the medical profession in some time. Dr. Gawande's style is lively and thought-provoking, particularly as he discusses practicing medicine in war-torn Iraq or how doctors struggle with ethical concerns relating to capital punishment. Rating: - Another Great Look Inside the Medical ProfessionI thought Atul Gawande's last book, Complications, was one of the best books written on the medical profession in a long while. In it, Gawande showed a deep respect and sympathy for patients while trying to be clear about what would help the medical establishment do a better job from a doctor's point of view. In this book, he covers some of the same ground but, as his title implies, here he is focused specifically on what it takes to do things better as a doctor. The chapters here are grouped under ... Read More Rating: - Better: Diligence, Doing Right and IngenuityI have to agree with Stephen Laniel that Gawande's Better is such a thought-provoking and insightful book that I couldn't help but keep reading till the end (however, I am such a slow reader, so I wasn't able to finish it in 4 hours. Though I managed to finish reading it on my road trip back to New York City from Maine this weekend. Of course, I was sitting comfortably in the passenger seat. I do like "The Doctors of the Death Chambers" a lot. I think it was a tough call for the four physicians ... Read More 
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