6/7/2023 0 Comments Better book atul gawandeHe combines anecdote, reportage, case study and reflection in prose that seems, in an Orwellian way, to be scarcely there, so clear and unarguable is his meaning. In 11 essays, some of which originally appeared in the New Yorker, where he is also a staff writer, Gawande examines questions ranging from how best to manage childbirth to how to improve treatment for cystic fibrosis, from malpractice suits to whether doctors should get involved in executions. With so many people in these professions, one would think that there would be thousands of books like Dr Gawande’s. Think law, management, medicine, teaching, many types of engineering. A practice is uneasily poised between a profession and a craft, with some science and art mixed in. Atul Gawande’s Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance does a wonderful thing that is rarely done: it tells us what it is like to be in a practice. On June 20, 2018, Dr Gawande was named the CEO of a recently-formed healthcare venture owned by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan Chase. He has written extensively on medicine and public health for The New Yorker and Slate and is the author of the books Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science Better The Checklist Manifesto and Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. Atul Gawande is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher.
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