TY - BOOK AU - Gawande, Atul TI - Better: A Surgeons Notes on Performance SN - 9780143423232 U1 - 616 GAW PY - 2009/// CY - Gurugram PB - Penguin Random House India Private Limited KW - Gawande, Atul KW - Medicine KW - Surgery KW - Surgery-Practice N2 - Nowhere is the drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision. Atul Gawande’s gripping stories take us to battlefield surgical tents in Iraq, delivery rooms in Boston, a polio outbreak in India, and malpractice courtrooms in the US. He discusses the ethical dilemma of lethal injections, examines the influence of money on modern medicine, and recounts the contentious history of handwashing. And as in all his writing, he gives us an inside look at his own life as a surgeon ER -