Better

Name: Better
Rating: 4.4 (7 reviews)
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9781429927949

by Unknown Author

4.4

(7 ratings)

288 pages2008Holt & Company, HenryISBN 9781429927949

Internal medicine Medicine Case studies Miscellanea Clinical Medicine Quality of Health Care Professional Competence Medical Ethics Personal Narratives Medicine, miscellanea Chirurg Surgery Practice Anecdotes New York Times reviewed Yi xue Pu ji du wu General Surgery Autobiography

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Explores the efforts of physicians to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of insurmountable obstacles, discussing such topics as the ethical considerations of lethal injections, malpractice, and surgical errors.

Publication Details

Publisher: Holt & Company, Henry
Published: 2008
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781429927949

About Unknown Author

Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, is a surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. For more than 20 years, he has practiced general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He is also Executive Director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and Chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. ([source][1]) Photo Credit: By <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Amar_Karodkar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Amar Karodkar (page does not exist)">Amar Karodkar</a> - <span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" title="Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64884113">Link</a> [1]: http://atulgawande.com/about/