Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance Atul Gawande
Publisher: Profile Books

The hardest question for the medical profession is to recognize that a significant proportion of the medical practioners are just average, oh no I said it! Few doctors are simply better than the rest! Expert Patient Beth Brophy reviews Atul Gawande's newest book Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance. White, Complex Adaptive Systems, IEEE International Systems Conference, Montreal, Canada, Apr. The ideas Gawande suggests for doctors to get better at their medicine practice and become "positive deviants" are applicable for all of us. Gawande, Better, A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, New York: Henry Holt, 2007. I don't think I can recommend this little book too highly. Atul Gawande's Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance does a wonderful thing that is rarely done: it tells us what it is like to be in a practice. Over the last few days I've been deep into Atul Gawande's Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance. Getting Better at Work (A Review of Atul Gawande's Book "Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance"). When I'm And that's the case with a book I just finished: Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, by Atul Gawande.