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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance Atul Gawande
Publisher: Picador

The ideas Gawande suggests for doctors to get better at their medicine practice and become "positive deviants" are applicable for all of us. It gives such a great insight into what it is like to be a doctor. For me, the Apgar score wasn't anything more than the source of some kvelling until I recently picked up Atul Gawande's 2007 book Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance. 251 of Atul Gawande's Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (2007): This is a forty-six-year-old former mortician who hated the funeral business with a right inguinal hernia. A couple of years ago I heard an interview with Atul Gawande, a US surgeon/professor/writer about his book “Better - A Surgeon's Notes on Performance” as part of a Scientific American podcast. His book, "Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science" was a National Book Award finalist. A surgeon looks at the pros and cons of forceps, Cesarean sections, epidural anesthesia, fetal heart monitors and other fixtures of modern delivery rooms. In 2006 he was named a MacArthur fellow. A new collection of essays from surgeon and New Yorker contributor Atul Gawande challenges doctors to improve the quality of with patients. Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance. His newest book, "Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance" was published in 2007. Better: a Surgeon's notes on performance is written by General Surgeon and staff writer for The New Yorker Dr. €�What does it take to be good at something in which failure is so easy, so effortless?” This is the question posed by Atul Gawande in his latest book, “Better – a surgeon's notes on performance”. Purchase Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance at amazon.com.