The ordinary checklist is shown as anything but in this riveting account. Documenting lives saved and crisie averted, this text honors a simple, effective tool. Gawande is a writer with a scalpel pen and an X-ray eye.

In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, in...

The New York Times bestselling author of 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 o...

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...

A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with ...

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 continu...

Named a Best Book of the Year byThe Washington Post Apple iBooks The New York Times Book Review NPR Amazon Chicago TribuneMedicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from ha...