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Riveting, honest, and humane, being mortal shows how the ultimate goal is not a good death but a good life. The new york times bestselling author of complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and riskfilled profession. A rock n roll loving surgeon who writes for the new yorker, atul gawande has a gift for describing both medical mishaps and aweinspiring surgical techniques with authoritative ease. The new york times bestselling author of better and complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist. Gawande lives with his wife and three children in newton, massachusetts. Part i contains chilling stories of medical errors, some the nearinevitable results of young docs learning their craft by practicing on live patients, some due. Oct 07, 2014 being mortal, atul gawande s masterful exploration of aging, death, and the medical professions mishandling of both, is his best and most personal book yet. Complications, better, the checklist manifesto, and most recently, being mortal. The checklist manifesto, by atul gawande the new york. Mother jones, new hampshire public radio, the new statesman, the new. Light wear to cover, slightly bumped corners, pages clean and unmarked. Atul gawande has been a staff writer at the new yorker since 1998. Over the past decade, through his writing in the new yorker magazine and his books complications and better, atul gawande has made a name for himself as a writer of exquisitely crafted meditations on the problems and challenges of modern medicine. Oct 26, 2014 the author, most recently, of being mortal.
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Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. Gawande s gripping stories of diligence, ingenuity, and what it means to do right by people take us to battlefield surgical tents in iraq, to labor and delivery. Gawande opens a new conversation about what dying has to do with living, and his role as a medical doctor in ensuring not only health and survival, but enabling his. Atul gawande has 28 books on goodreads with 528698 ratings. Now he examines its ultimate limitations and failuresin his own practices as well as othersas life draws to a close. In his bestselling books, atul gawande, a practicing surgeon, has fearlessly revealed the struggles of his profession. Atul gawande in the new yorker the future of capitalism. A gemlike collection of essays on medicine by eighthyear surgical resident, harvard med graduate, rhodes scholar, and new yorker staff writer gawande, himself the son of physicians part i contains chilling stories of medical errors, some the nearinevitable results of young docs learning their craft by practicing on live patients, some due to the burnout or depression of. Through the two halves of his book, atul gawande boston surgeon, staff writer for the new yorker, this years choice for the bbc reith lectures has written an impassioned, broadranging. How to get things right in a world of increasing complexity e live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements. A graduate of harvard medical school and the harvard school of public health, he has had his writing selected to appear in the best american essays 2002. Atul gawande is a staff member of brigham and womens hospital, the dana farber cancer institute, and the new yorker magazine. He practices general and endocrine surgery at brigham and womens hospital in boston, massachusetts.
His vivid stories take us to battlefield surgical tents in iraq, to a polio. The checklist manifesto is beautifully written, engaging, and convincingly makes the case for adopting checklists in medicine, a project to which gawande has devoted significant time over the last several years. Atul gawande is the author of the checklist manifesto, better, and complications. The checklist manifesto by atul gawande and what works by. He is also a surgeon at brigham and womens hospital in boston, a staff writer for the new yorker, and a professor at. He is intelligent, observant and faithful, the way we want all doctors to be. I missed the checklist manifesto when it first came out, but now that it is in paperback, i had a chance to read it. Surgeon and author atul gawande on his new book being mortal. No one writes about medicine as a human subject as well as atul gawande.
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