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Harvard Book Store Presents...
Metropolitan Books
Price: $24.00
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ATUL GAWANDE disucssing
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
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Harvard Book Store is excited to welcome Atul Gawande to read from his new book, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance.
The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable.
Publisher's Weekly Starred Review:
"Surgeon and MacArthur fellow Gawande applies his gift for dulcet prose to medical and ethical dilemmas in this collection of twelve original and previously published essays adapted from the New England Journal of Medicine and the New Yorker. If his 2002 collection, Complications, addressed the unfathomable intractability of the body, this is largely about how we erect barriers to seamless and thorough care.... The heart of the book are the chapters 'What Doctors Owe,' about the U.S.'s blinkered malpractice system, and 'Piecework,' about what doctors earn. Cheerier, paradoxically, are the chapters involving polio and cystic fibrosis, featuring Dr. Pankaj Bhatnagar and Dr. Warren Warwick, two remarkable men who have been able to catapult their humanity into their work rather than constantly stumble over it. Indeed, one suspects that once we cure the ills of the health care system, we'll look back and see that Gawande's writings were part of the story."
Read a Gawande New Yorker piece here.
Watch a video of Gawande here.
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Monday, April 9th |
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6:00 PM |
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Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle Street
Cambridge |
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Tickets cost $5.00 and are available at the store or over the phone with a credit card at 617-661-1515 |
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Atul Gawande is a surgeon and writer based in Massachusetts. From 1992 to 1993 he served as senior health policy advisor to the Clinton campaign and the Clinton White House. Since 1998 he has been a staff writer for The New Yorker. He is on the currently faculty of Brigham and Women's Hospital as a general and endocrine surgeon, and is a staff member of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. He is also an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Research Director for the Brigham and Women's Center for Surgery and Public Health. He has written two best-selling books, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science and Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance.
Photo Credit: Laura Hanifin
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