Atul Gawande
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Pub. Date
2010
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English
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The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist
We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies—neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul
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English
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**A new unabridged recording**
A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine.
Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This audio is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is -- complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human.
Atul...
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English
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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 important than in medicine, where lives may be on the line with any decision. 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....
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Español
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A comienzos del siglo XXI hemos acumulado unos conocimientos tremendos y los hemos puesto en manos de las personas mejor formadas, más cualificadas y trabajadoras de nuestra sociedad. No obstante, ese saber es a menudo inmanejable. Los fracasos evitables son frecuentes y persistentes, incluso desmoralizantes y frustrantes, en muchos campos que van desde la medicina a las finanzas, desde el mundo empresarial a la política. El motivo es cada vez más...
6) Being mortal
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Frontline teams up with writer and surgeon Atul Gawande to examine how doctors care for terminally ill patients. In conjunction with Gawande's new book, Being Mortal, the film explores the relationships between doctors and patients nearing the end of life, and shows how many doctors, including himself, struggle to talk honestly and openly.
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