Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

Atul Gawande

273 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction science emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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The struggle to perform well is universal: each one 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 are on the line with every d...

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