Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance Review
I had the impression that a doctor is akin to a Sherlock Holmes fighting microbes. This book dispelled that notion. Through 13 well-chosen stories, Gawande highlights questions doctors are confronted with on a daily basis that are rarely seen by the outside world. The stories are split into three categories: (1) how doing simple things in a diligent manner solves many problems; (2) ethical questions that doctors need to face; and, (3) how being ingenious - and he takes pains to point out that it is different from being a genius - and doing the best one can, saves many lives. He comes across as an introspective person, willing to look inwards and recognize the flaws in his noble profession. Most importantly, many of these introspections lead to constructive suggestions and all of them are directed towards making healthcare better. Overall, a highly recommended read for anybody.
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance Overview
The struggle to perform well is universal: each of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives may be on the line with any decision.
Atul Gawande, the New York Times bestselling author of Complications, examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in this complex and risk-filled profession. At once unflinching and compassionate, Better is an exhilarating journey, narrated by "arguably the best nonfiction doctor-writer around" (Salon.com).
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Customer Reviews
How to Improve Performance - K. Lisson - Albany, NY
In the book, 'Better,' Atul Gawande, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, offers five suggestions for "becoming a positive deviant."
Ask an Unscripted Question
Don't Complain
Count Something
Write Something, and
Change
Of these five, my favorite is Count Something. By taking charge of quantifying the effectiveness of my work, I can become and experiment of one and find ways to improve my own best performance.
I rely on counting something far more as a runner than I do at my workplace. How can I bring the lessons I have learned in improving my running performance to my job?
This book inspired me with stories of how health care facilities around the world have innovated in achieving their mission of improving performance - of becoming Better.
The cover does not do justice - CHolley -
This book arrived to me in excellent condition. A book's a book, therefore I did not need anything special. I just needed it to get here on time and in tact, which it did.
The content is supported by great amounts of tedious detail which adds to description of the topic for each chapter. Narrowing in on the issue, the author puts himself in a variety of circumstances that the public does not recognize when considering medicine/ Health Care. Not to mention, there is no better person to write about the experiences than this man who has seen so much. The book does not stop at the simple, obvious, up front ideas on medicine in the United States. Rather, it dives into world wide issues and minute detail that come to a solution.
I thought I knew most of it, until I read this book.
Excellent Read - D. Larsen - Utah, USA
Gawande writes of simple solutions to improve healthcare. His solutions and approach move far beyond healthcare, providing good counsel for one's personal life or career.
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