Better: A surgeon’s notes on performance

In Better: a surgeon’s notes on performance, Atul Gawande, best-selling author of Complications: a surgeon’s notes on an imperfect science, general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, investigates human performance in medicine. He takes the reader to courtrooms, clinics, war zones, and execution chambers to demonstrate the incredible environments in which doctors care for and treat patients. While drawing on a vast array of sources, including his own personal experience, Gawande interweaves into nearly every chapter fascinating vignettes about the most important person in his view of medicine: the patient. By ensuring that every message is personalized in this manner, he brings a warm, humane touch to this superb book.