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|  | Author: Atul Gawande
Publisher: Picador
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Rating:  100 reviews
Sales Rank: 2080
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0312427654
Dewey Decimal Number: 616
EAN: 9780312427658
ASIN: 0312427654
Publication Date: January 22, 2008
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Condition: Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas.
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 Better, by Atul Gawande July 9, 2009
R. Hayes
"Better" is an excellent book, clearly written and extremely well organized. Its theme is improvement in medical care and, mostly, the personality traits of the persons who have produced several improvements. The book gives intensely interesting case histories and can be read with pleasure and profit to learn about such things as a saturation program to stamp out a polio flare-up in India or about an anesthesiologist who devised a rating scale for the condition of new-born children, which resulted in a sharp decrease in their mortality. Its overarching theme, though, is moral: that fixed dedication to the task one has chosen, and commitment to its accomplishment in the best way one can, is important to improving the world we live in.
More Than Medical July 5, 2009
BillyB (New York City)
"Better" is a series of essays on subjects related to the delivery of health care. The unifying theme is how things can be improved beyond technological advances if medical personal tried harder to do their jobs better. The author demonstrates how simple improvements - like hand washing and talking to patients - can provide startling results. I loved this book and recommended it to others because I think it speaks to principals that could make any field of endeavor "better." Too often we look to the latest management flavor of the day or technology to solve our problems when we should be returning to the basics.
 Recommended May 31, 2009
Anonymous (Chalfont, PA)
Very absorbing and well written. Both my 16 year old high school junior and I enjoyed this book very much. We recommend it.
Much better April 19, 2009
Dr. Jan B. Newman (Clinton, Mt. United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a compilation of essays some of which have been published elsewhere as was the case with his first work, COMPLICATIONS. There the comparison ends. Dr Gawande's writing and attitude have grown and matured. Here we see the professor who provokes us to thought as well as teaches.
The book opens with an introduction which was a story of how a senior resident senses that a patient may be sicker than her vital signs reveal. Following his clinical judgment he is more judicious than most would be. By his judiciousness he saves a patient's life. This essay sets the stage for book.
The book is divided into 3 sections Diligence, Doing Right and Ingenuity, the qualities he feels doctors need to embody. Then he uses the power of story to illustrate those qualities. He raises procative questions.
He shares with us fascinating stories some that are inspiring and others that are disappointing, others controversial. All give us pause for thought .
This is a book that all of us should read especially now a health care reform must occur and we are facing the question How can we do better?
A Medical Drama - an insider looking out February 17, 2009
The geacher (Irvine CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Atul Gawande asks the hard questions. How can a doctor who is just a human be expected to be a god? Gawande looks at the profession from the mundane (hand washing) to the ethical mountain tops (physicians attending executions). The odd thing is that the death row docs have not killed nearly as many people, in the big picture, as the ones who forget to sufficiently scrub up.
Dr. Gawande tells us about the challenges and changes in obstetrics, cystic fibrosis, and the use of chaperones in examining rooms, trauma practice and many other little niches in the health care system from an insider's point of view.
This is a well written real life look into the daily life of a modern day physician documenting all the medical and ethical decisions that affect both the doc and the patient. He is quite frank with many of his judgment calls but never gets too technical that the book is difficult to read for the layman. This is a good read.....BG
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