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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

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Author : Atul Gawande
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9781861976574
ISBN : 1861976577
Label : Profile Books Ltd
Manufacturer : Profile Books Ltd
Number of pages : 288
Publication date : 2008-03-27
Publisher : Profile Books Ltd
Title : Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Languages : Array
Studio : Profile Books Ltd

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A must read for the medical and non-medical alike
In his second book Gawande turns to issues more of public health. That's not to say it's devoid of his surgical experience, but now in addition we get the interesting public health aspects to medicine from the relentless "washing hands" to eradicating polio in India. The essays again have their perfect blend of anecdote and academia and anybody regardless of their medical experience will gain immensely from reading this. His essay on the bell curve is truly inspiring thinking, and whilst the original concept was not his there are few better able to articulate it. Whilst his last book, though scholarly was more action packed, this edition takes a more academic approach and though it may be as tense we get much welcomed insights from the public health side.

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