asks writer/physician Gawande in his follow-up to Complications (2002). Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance. ", "[T]his brilliant, persuasive and even inspiring book, with its crisp writing and its abundance of well-told tales, might well be taken to heart by any reader. Yokoe is forty-five years old, gentle voiced, and dimpled. He's using medicine to help anyone who hopes to do anything better. Hardcover, Profil..., 2008 Hardcover, Profil..., 2007 Ask people who have spent any time there and they will tell you this: The hospital can be a dangerous place. If collaboratively pondering standards, preferably from diverse sources, can inform teacher chosen direction and cultivation of sound practices (locally contextualized), then perhaps the even more valuable role of positive deviance can operate. The struggle to perform well is universal: each of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. Book Description St Martin's Press, United States, 2008.St Martin's Press, United States, 2008. But nowhere is this drive to.Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Create lists, bibliographies and reviews: Your request to send this item has been completed. Their full-time job, and that of three others in the unit, is to stop the spread of infection in the hospital. Seller Inventory # ABZ9780312427658, Book Description St Martin's Press, United States, 2008. But the story was more complicated. Gawande is unassuming in every way, and yet his prose is infused with steadfast determination and hope.
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At once unflinching and compassionate, Better is an exhilarating journey, narrated by arguably the best nonfiction doctor-writer around (Salon.com). Families in waiting rooms will fill you in on the long list of delayed procedures. . (P.4) 1 (Also true in teaching? Cultivating “adherence” takes a strong vision, and a longer more complex investment; administrators often seem to settle for (prefer) “compliance.”. Get this from a library! Language: English. NATIONAL BESTSELLER The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. Gawande's gripping stories take us to battlefield surgical tents in Iraq, to delivery rooms in Boston, to a polio outbreak in India, and to malpractice courtrooms around the country.

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