
Atul Atmaram Gawande is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. In public health, he was the chairman of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit that works on reducing deaths in surgery globally. On June 20, 2018, Gawande was named the CEO of healthcare venture Haven, owned by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan Chase and stepped down as CEO in May 2020, remaining as executive chairman while the organization sought a new CEO. He is the author of the books Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science; Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance; The Checklist Manifesto; and Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. On November 9, 2020, he was named a member of President-elect Joe Biden's COVID-19 Advisory Board. On December 17, 2021, he was confirmed as the Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, and he was sworn in on January 4, 2022.
In his latest bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and how we can deal with it. The modern world has given us stupendous know-how. Yet avoidable failures continue to plague us in health care, government, the law, the financial industry—in almost every realm of organized activity. And the reason is the volume and complexity of knowledge today has exceeded our ability as individuals to properly deliver it to people—consistently, correctly, safely. We train longer, specialize more, use ever-advancing technologies, and still we fail. Atul Gawande makes a compelling argument that we can do better, using the simplest of the checklist. In riveting stories, he reveals what checklists can do, what they can’t, and how they could bring about striking improvements in a variety of fields, from medicine and disaster recovery to professions and businesses of all kinds. And the insights are making a difference. Already, a simple surgical checklist from the World Health Organization designed by following the ideas described here has been adopted in more than twenty countries as a standard for care and has been heralded as “the biggest clinical invention in thirty years” ( The Independent ).
The struggle to perform well is universal: each one 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 are on the line with every decision. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable. Gawande's gripping stories of diligence, ingenuity, and what it means to do right by people take us to battlefield surgical tents in Iraq, to labor and delivery rooms in Boston, to a polio outbreak in India, and to malpractice courtrooms around the country. He discusses the ethical dilemmas of doctors participation in lethal injections, examines the influence of money on modern medicine, and recounts the astoundingly contentious history of hand washing. And as in all his writing, Gawande gives us an inside look at his own life as a practicing surgeon, offering a searingly honest firsthand account of work in a field where mistakes are both unavoidable and unthinkable. At once unflinching and compassionate, Better is an exhilarating journey narrated by arguably the best nonfiction doctor-writer around (Salon). Gawande's investigation into medical professionals and how they progress from merely good to great provides rare insight into the elements of success, illuminating every area of human endeavor.
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Ai rồi cũng chết! là một tuyệt phẩm đánh động lòng người được viết nên bởi bác sĩ kiêm tác giả best-seller Atul Gawande. Cuốn sách không chỉ có khả năng lay chuyển ngành y học hiện đại, mà nó còn sẽ giúp làm biến đổi hoàn toàn cuộc sống của muôn người - bao gồm chính bạn!Ngành y học thế giới đã có nhiều bước phát triển vượt bậc trong những năm giảm thiểu tỉ lệ tử vong trẻ sơ sinh, nâng cao tỉ lệ sống sót sau chấn thương, chữa trị và kiểm soát được nhiều loại bệnh tật - kể cả nhiều căn bệnh từng được xem là không có thuốc chữa trong quá khứ. Nhưng dù có bành trướng hùng mạnh đến đâu, y học vẫn muôn đời bất lực trước quy luật sinh-lão-bệnh-tử bất biến của con ngườ Mỗi khi con người phải đối diện với Tuổi Già và Cái Chết, những công cụ y học vốn dĩ quyền năng bỗng chốc phản bội lại chính lý tưởng cứu nhân độ thế mà chúng đang phục vụ.Bằng những công trình nghiên cứu khoa học giá trị và những câu chuyện sống động từ các bệnh nhân và người thân của chính mình, bác sĩ Gawande bóc trần cho chúng ta thấy những hệ lụy và nỗi đau mà con người phải gánh chịu bởi nghịch lý trên. Viện dưỡng lão vốn dĩ được lập ra với mục đích ban đầu tốt đẹp là giúp cho người cao tuổi có một cuộc sống hạnh phúc và viên mãn bất chấp tuổi già, nhưng nhiều nhà dưỡng lão ngày nay bị biến tướng thành những tòa nhà khép kín không khác gì nhà tù, nơi mà người già không được phép ăn những món ăn họ thích và không được phép làm những gì mình muốn. Nhiều bác sĩ được đào tạo xuất sắc về mặt chuyên môn, nhưng lại không biết cách làm thế nào để nói cho bệnh nhân biết sự thật về bệnh tình của họ; thay vào đó, bác sĩ lại vin vào những hy vọng hão huyền về khả năng cứu sống người bệnh của y học và đề xuất cho bệnh nhân hàng loạt biện pháp chữa trị để nuôi những hy vọng hão đó. Rốt cuộc, hành động này chỉ khiến cho người bệnh và cả thân nhân của họ thêm hao mòn khổ sở chứ không hề mang lại ích lợi gì cho họ cả về mặt thể xác lẫn tinh thần.Trong những cuốn sách của mình, bác sĩ phẫu thuật Atul Gawande đã dùng ngòi bút mạnh mẽ không chút sợ hãi của mình tiết lộ cho chúng ta biết sự thật đằng sau ngành y cũng như những cuộc chiến mà các thầy thuốc như ông phải đối mặt và tranh đấu vượt qua. Lần này, với tác phẩm Ai rồi cũng chết!, ông phơi bày cho chúng ta thấy những giới hạn và nhược điểm của ngành y - trong cả chuyên môn của ông lẫn những chuyên ngành khác - khi cuộc sống con người bị đe dọa bởi sự lão hóa và cái chết. Qua đó, ông cũng đồng thời khám phá ra rằng mọi chuyện đều có cách giải quyết, rằng chúng ta hoàn toàn có thể làm khác đi, để mang lại cuộc sống tốt đẹp hơn cho mọi người cũng như cho chính bản thân chúng ta.Để khai phá ngọn nguồn mọi vấn đề cũng như giải pháp, bác sĩ Gawande đã theo chân một nữ y tá làm công việc chăm sóc bệnh nhân tại gia, phỏng vấn nhiều người trong giới bác sĩ lão khoa và sinh hoạt cùng họ, và tiếp xúc với những nhà quản lý viện dưỡng lão có tư tưởng cấp tiến và nhân văn. Ông tìm thấy những con người biết cách nói lên sự thật và chứng minh cho cả thế giới thấy, rằng mỗi người chúng ta đều có thể và có quyền mưu cầu cho mình một cuộc sống tốt đẹp và hạnh phúc bất chấp tuổi già sức yếu mà không phải hy sinh những giá trị sống mà chúng ta yêu quý hoặc tôn thờ.Với cách kể chuyện chân thực, sống động, mê hoặc và đánh động lòng người của tác giả, quyển sách Ai rồi cũng chết!khẳng định với chúng ta rằ Mỗi con người sinh ra không phải chỉ để ăn, ngủ hay tồn tại qua ngày, mà chính là để được sống một cuộc sống đúng nghĩa; rằng mục đích cuối cùng của y học không phải để kéo dài sự tồn tại vô nghĩa của con người, mà chính là để giúp chúng ta có một cuộc sống mãi mãi đong đầy hạnh phúc - cho đến tận phút lâm chung!
This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. There are accounts of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; what it feels like to insert your knife into someone.
Atul Gawande Collection 4 Books Set Includes Titles in This Set:- The Checklist Manifesto, Being Mortal, Complications, Better a Surgeon's Notes on Performance. Description:- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. Atul Gawande In this groundbreaking book, Atul Gawande makes a compelling argument for the checklist, which he believes to be the most promising method available in surmounting failure. Whether you're following a recipe, investing millions of dollars in a company or building a skyscraper, the checklist is an essential tool in virtually every area of our lives, and Gawande explains how breaking down complex, high pressure tasks into small steps can radically improve everything from airline safety to heart surgery survival rates. Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mortal. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made.There are accounts of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; what it feels like to insert your knife into someone. Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance The struggle to perform well is universal, but nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable.
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Being Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande | Summary & TakeawaysBuy Only $2.99 (Save $3.00 or 50%, Regular $5.99)Read This Buy now and your book will be delivered to your Kindle device automatically.This book is a supplement to “Being Mortal” and intended to enhance the experience of reading the original book. We recommend purchasing the full version of “Being Mortal” on Amazon in addition to this book.Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering.Buy Only $2.99 (Save $3.00 or 50%, Regular $5.99)Read This Buy now and your book will be delivered to your Kindle device automatically.
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Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively :Being Mortal, The Prison Doctor, Trust Me Im a Junior Doctor, Where Does it Hurt 4 Books Collection Being For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mortal. So here is a book about the modern experience of mortality - about what it's like to get old and die, how medicine has changed this and how it hasn't.The Prison Dr Amanda Brown has treated inmates in the UK's most infamous prisons - first in young offenders' institutions, then at the notorious Wormwood Scrubs and finally at Europe's largest women-only prison in Europe, Bronzefield.Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Starting on the evening before he begins work as a doctor, this book charts Max Pemberton's touching and funny journey through his first year in the NHS. Progressing from youthful idealism to frank bewilderment, Max realises how little his job is about 'saving people' and how much of his time is taken up by signing forms and trying to figure out all the important things no one has explained yet.Where Does it Hurt?:He's into his second year of medicine, but this time Max is out of the wards and onto the streets, working for the Phoenix Outreach Project.Fuelled by tea and more enthusiasm than experience, he attempts to locate and treat a wide and colourful range of patients that somehow his first year on the wards didn't prepare him for . . .
Combined box set of all the bestselling booksby Atul Gawande, acclaimed surgeon and writer In The Checklist Manifesto, Gawande finds a remedy to tackle immensely complex problems with the humblest of the checklist. Through riveting stories from the fields of medicine to disaster response, investment banking to skyscraper construction and businesses, he demonstrates how the checklist can help anyone improve their own and others' lives. In Being Mortal, Gawande argues that an acceptance of mortality must lie at the center of the way we treat the dying. Using his experiences (and missteps) as a surgeon, comparing attitudes toward aging and death in the West and in India, he provides an extraordinary account of loss. Questioning, profound and deeply moving, Being Mortal is a masterpiece. In Better, 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 hand-washing. And as in all his writing, he gives us an inside look at his own life as a surgeon. In Complications, Gawande performs surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science that is complicated, perplexing and profoundly human. Dramatic true stories explore how mistakes occur, why good surgeons go bad, and what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable.
by Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande sort de chez Flunch ‒ enfin, de la Cheesecake Factory, mais c’est la même idée. Il se dit qu’en fait c’était vraiment pas mal du tout et que la standardisation n’a pas que des mauvais côtés. D’ailleurs, plusieurs expériences récentes menées à l’hôpital tendraient à le convaincre qu’en médecine aussi, rationaliser les tâches et les superviser à plus grande échelle donne parfois des résultats probants. Et que le confrère qui lui soutient que “la part d’interprétation personnelle, ça devrait être 5% de notre pratique, pas 95%”a peut-être raison.
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C’est toujours la même évidence qui s’impose : on ne forme pas de nouveaux médecins sans exposer les patients.
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