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    Better von Gawande, Atul

    A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
    Explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable. This book discusses the ethical dilemmas of doctors' participation in lethal injections and examines the influence of money on modern medicine.
    Verlag Profile Books
    Einband Kartonierter Einband (Kt)
    Erscheinungsjahr 2008
    Seitenangabe 273 S.
    Meldetext Versandbereit innert 48 Stunden
    Ausgabekennzeichen Englisch
    Masse H19.8 cm x B13.0 cm x D2.0 cm 239 g
    Autor Gawande, Atul
    Kartonierter Einband (Kt)
    Versandbereit innert 48 Stunden
    978-1-86197-657-4
    Fr. 19.90
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    Über den Autor Gawande, Atul

    Atul Gawande is the author of three previous bestselling books: Complications, a finalist for the National Book Award; Better, selected by Amazon.com as one of the ten best books of 2007; and The Checklist Manifesto. His current book, Being Mortal, was a New York Times Bestseller. He is also a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for the New Yorker, and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, a MacArthur Fellowship, and two National Magazine Awards. In 2014, he delivered the BBC Reith Lectures. In his work in public health, he is director of Ariadne Labs, a joint centre for health system innovation, and chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit organisation making surgery safer globally. He and his wife have three children and live in Newton, Massachusetts.

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