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Being Mortal - Illness Medicine & What by Atul Gawande
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Wellcome | Reading Level: very good
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safet ...Show more
Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
$39.99 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction | Series: Wellcome
New York Times Number One bestseller Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2014 In Being Mortal, Gawande examines his experiences as a surgeon, as he confronts the realities of aging and dying in his patients and in his family, as well as the limits of what he can do. And he emerges with story that cr ...Show more
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
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Category: Younger Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
The struggle to perform well is universal, but nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine. 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. His vivi ...Show more
Complications : A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
$22.99 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction
This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. There are accounts of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; what ...Show more
The Checklist Manifesto - How To Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
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Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
One of the top ten greatest doctors in the world looks at the lowly checklist, and how this simple idea - which is free to reproduce - will revolutionise the way we approach problems, and help save lives. Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly place in the hands ...Show more
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