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The author and surgeon explores the meaning of excellence in medicine and life. In being mortal, gawande examines his experiences as a surgeon, as he confronts. Gawande s investigation into medical professionals and how they progress from merely good to great provides rare insight into the elements of success, illuminating every area of human endeavor. The struggle to perform well is universal, but nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine. Atul gawande, md, mph, is a surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. At times, in medicine, you feel you are inside a colossal and impossibly complex machine whose gears will turn for you only according to their own arbitrary rhythm. Noted jazz and pop record producer thiele offers a chatty autobiography. His vivid stories take us to battlefield surgical tents in iraq, to a polio outbreak in. It is essentially a compilation of essays that have been published in the new yorker and slate, where gawande is a staff writer.
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