Atul Gawande

Broschiertes Buch

Better

A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

Beschreibung

Explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable. This book discusses the ethical dilemmas of doctors' participation in lethal injections and examines the influence of money on modern medicine.

Autor

Atul Gawande

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 273
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 237g
• ISBN-13: 9781861976574
• ISBN-10: 1861976577
• Artikelnr.: 23299577

Rezensionen

I found I had been gripping the book so hard that my fingers hurt ... it calls to mind one of the great classics of medical literature, Mikhail Bulgakov's A Country Doctor's Notebook. Few modern authors can stand that comparison, but Gawande can. Sunday Times