Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance
Better: A General practitioner’s Notes on Performance Books
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The struggle to perform well is universal: each of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more vital than in medicine, where lives may be on the line with any choice.
Atul Gawande, the New York Times bestselling author of Complications, examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in this complex and risk-filled profession. At once unflinching and compassionate, Better is an exhilarating journey, narrated by “arguably the best nonfiction doctor-novelist nearly” (Salon.com).
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I really liked Gawande’s first book “Complications”. That’s why I was excited when I bought this one. It is still excellent with many fascinating topics, but it seems that the success of his first book made the author more and more conceited which is reflected particularly in “How to become a positive deviant”.
I am not sure if I will read a third book of Gawande.
Rating: 3 / 5
The first surgery that I ever had was a c-section with my first child. I got an infection which resulted in two later surgeries to clean the infection and remove a large hematoma. I wish I had read this book before. Its hard to tell your doctor or nurse to wash their hands and place new gloves on after touching something that is not sterile… but do it for your own excellent. I’m two months out from the c-section and I still have an open wound on my abdomen. You have no control over what goes on in a surgery, so talk to your doctor about PREVENTATIVE ANTIBIOTICS that you can take after surgery.
Rating: 4 / 5
I’d read the cystic fibrosis and c-section articles, and even as the first was fascinating, the second was an appalling disappointment for me, as I, like just about everyone else, really loved _Complications_. Even as Gawande still has fascinating things to say, his conclusions have become simplistic and seem at odds with the tales he tells in the course of each discussion. This was particularly apparent, as another reviewer has already noted, in the essay on the death penalty.
In general, I got the sense he is papering over some very, very serious concerns with medicine as he is accustomed to involved it. He gives slight recognition to the possibility of _not_ deploying every piece of technology available and describes glowingly, for example, the treatment of very low birth consequence babies and inaccurately characterizes the value of the current system of treatment (never mentioning the greater success of kangaroo care elsewhere) both in terms of immediate preservation of life and in terms of long term quality of life.
If cheerleading makes you feel excellent, this might work for you. But look elsewhere for a thoughtful, balanced assessment of our medical system and how it might be improved.
Rating: 2 / 5
Disappointing outing for this ordinarily wonderful author.Contracted he does not try to hide from the blemishes of the surgical world but the book at times went on and on and became dull.
I do judge that he is a courageous man to write the types of books and articles
that he does write, as the medical profession is a closed society.I know his need to try to make medicine better but is this the way to do it? we’ll never really know.
Rating: 3 / 5
Sorry, unable to comment. This book was bought for distribution to my Sickbay Board of Directors. Thank you
Rating: 5 / 5