Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance - Softcover

Gawande, Atul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861976577 ISBN 13: 9781861976574

Verlag: Profile Books, 2008

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The bestselling author of Complications reveals what you need to be a great surgeon - and shows how everyone can improve at what they do

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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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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Profile Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1861976577
• ISBN 13: 9781861976574
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Van Ditmar Boeken, VDB Sales; sales@vanditmar.nl; ; Hondiuslaan 44; Utrecht; 3528 AB; Niederlande