- Internal medicine, Medicine, Case studies, Miscellanea
Explores the efforts of physicians to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of insurmountable obstacles, discussing such topics as the ethical considerations of lethal injections, malpractice, and surgical errors.
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Contemporary, spare, earnest and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Atul Gawande
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 281
- Publisher
- Zhejiang People's Publishing House, Picador, Holt & Company, Henry
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9781429927949
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Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, is a surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. For more than 20 years, he has practiced general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He is also Executive Director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and Chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. ([source][1]) Photo Credit: By <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Amar_Karodkar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Amar Karodka
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