From the back cover: Atul Gawande examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in this complex and risk-filled profession [medicine].
The author is a general and endocrine surgeon but this is not merely a book of medical anecdotes and case histories. Gawande, son of Indian immigrants, puts forth defining factors for improvement in any aspect of life: diligence, doing right, and ingenuity. There are medical anecdotes and case histories but they are used to illustrate where medicine has failed to live up to its potential as well as where innovative ideas and a certain amount of fearlessness have pushed treatments far beyond what the average doctor would do.
If you are interested in medicine, science, and how to do better, Gawande's "Better" has something for you.
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The author is a general and endocrine surgeon but this is not merely a book of medical anecdotes and case histories. Gawande, son of Indian immigrants, puts forth defining factors for improvement in any aspect of life: diligence, doing right, and ingenuity. There are medical anecdotes and case histories but they are used to illustrate where medicine has failed to live up to its potential as well as where innovative ideas and a certain amount of fearlessness have pushed treatments far beyond what the average doctor would do.
If you are interested in medicine, science, and how to do better, Gawande's "Better" has something for you.
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