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: Tells it like it is
Summary: 5 Stars
The author brings you into his last year of residency through his first few years of practice with interviews of other practitoners. His unflinching examination of the health care system gives an accurate protryal of how we are in the mess we are in. From his negotiaion to joining a surgical practice in the Boston area, to looking at rural health care, this is about a 3-4 (cross country) read on how different areas receive different medical care from a doctor who is willingly publically to question the system. Yes, it is in an essay format, but that makes it easy to pick up and put down.Book Review: Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Summary: 5 Stars
Let's face it, we citizens have been listening to the national health care rhetoric for a couple of years now. Rarely are there real examples of what is going on where things actually happen. This surgeon presents his material in short story form and provides us with keen incite on the problems, opportunities and needs of the health care world. If you are a health care professional, an insurance provider or an intested party, I recommend that you read this book.Book Review: Gawande is as good with the pen as with the scalpel
Summary: 5 Stars
Better is a very good window on medical practice. There are a lot of books on this subject - and not many have the same cutting edge as this one. All the chapters are good, but the one about the bell curve is outstanding: why some places are much better than others when all should be about the same, using the same medical information that is avaiable for all.Book Review: Gawande Strikes Again
Summary: 5 Stars
If you've never read Atul Gawande's novels before, don't start here. First read his Complications, then come back to this book. If you watch Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Boston Medical, ER, or any of those hospital drama shows, Gawande's insight on hospitals, medical care, and health bureaucracy is for you. Don't take my word for it; go read.Book Review: Informative
Summary: 5 Stars
I feel as though I've learned so much about surgery and medicine from one little book. Better was informative and well written. It was also easily believable as you could tell the author had knowledge about medicine and the situations of which he spoke. It was obviously well researched and written for the medical layperson. Well done.