Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
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Book Reviews of Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Book Review: Better, by Atul Gawande
Summary: 5 Stars
"Better" is an excellent book, clearly written and extremely well organized. Its theme is improvement in medical care and, mostly, the personality traits of the persons who have produced several improvements. The book gives intensely interesting case histories and can be read with pleasure and profit to learn about such things as a saturation program to stamp out a polio flare-up in India or about an anesthesiologist who devised a rating scale for the condition of new-born children, which resulted in a sharp decrease in their mortality. Its overarching theme, though, is moral: that fixed dedication to the task one has chosen, and commitment to its accomplishment in the best way one can, is important to improving the world we live in.Book Review: Transparency, diligence - engines of innovation
Summary: 5 Stars
Constantly bombarded by the latest headlines in advances of genomics research, new drugs, and ever sophisticated machinery to help save human lives, Atul Gawande's book offers an insightful suggestion: diligence, transparency, and focus on data-driven improvement, on the part of the doctor, may well be the next frontiers if we're looking to transform the healthcare industry.
Science helps, but ingenuity, and diligence of the doctor are often overlooked and underestimated. Having no affiliation to the healthcare industry, this book has definitely brought me to re-evaluate my relationship with my doctor, and gave me a much better understanding of what to look for in the future.
Book Review: Becoming Better
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is a compliation of authentic stories that elucidates the importance of enhancing or becoming better at what you do. The book is categorized into three parts. They are dilligence, doing it right and ingenuity. In each case, he lucidly supports his propositions with pragmatic examples that motivates the reader to apply those lessson's to his or a her own personal life. It amazes me how Dr. Gwande find time to write these books as a busy general surgeon. But when does find time and write these books, he surely hit it out of the pack. If you are a person wanting to enhancing your aptitude at work or any part of your life, this is the book to read.Book Review: Wow - from start to finish!
Summary: 5 Stars
Even better than his first book, Dr. Gawande bravely speaks out about the very real aspect of human fallibility in our health care system and his quest to eliminate errors in medicine. Quite frankly, I can't remember which of his first two books, "Complications" or "Better" the discussion about 'pre-flight' style check lists for surgical teams was mentioned in - because I read both of his books back to back in one day, but the idea is catching on and showing staggering statistical success. Dr. Gawande's frank writing style is threaded through with human compassion and is quite pleasurable to read. I highly recommend both of his books!Book Review: More Than Medical
Summary: 5 Stars
"Better" is a series of essays on subjects related to the delivery of health care. The unifying theme is how things can be improved beyond technological advances if medical personal tried harder to do their jobs better. The author demonstrates how simple improvements - like hand washing and talking to patients - can provide startling results. I loved this book and recommended it to others because I think it speaks to principals that could make any field of endeavor "better." Too often we look to the latest management flavor of the day or technology to solve our problems when we should be returning to the basics.