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Better : a surgeon's notes on performance

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  • Author: Gawande, Atul
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    2007
    Summary:

    Examines accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in this profession.

    Contents:
    • Part I. Diligence: On washing hands ; The mop-up ; Casualties of war
    • Part II. Doing right: Naked ; What doctors owe ; Piecework ; The doctors of the death chamber ; On fighting
    • Part III. Ingenuity: The score ; The bell curve ; For performance.
    Genre:
    Medicine, health and fitness
    Subject(s): Gawande, Atul | Internal Medicine | Medicine | Surgery | Surgery--Practice
    Original Publisher: New York, Picador
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780312427658