Better

Name: Better
Rating: 4.4 (7 reviews)
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9781861976574

by Unknown Author

4.4

(7 ratings)

273 pages2008ProfileISBN 9781861976574

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

Open in BookOwl Download on App Store

About this book

Writing about everything from surgical tents on the battlefields in Iraq to a polio outbreak in India and hospitals worldwide, Atul Gawande gives an honest insight into life as a practising surgeon and explains what distinguishes the average performance from the brilliant.

Publication Details

Publisher: Profile
Published: 2008
Pages: 273
ISBN: 9781861976574

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/