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

Better – A surgeon's notes on performance turned out to be one of the more delightful reads of the spring. €What does it take to be good at something in which failure is so easy, so effortless?” This is the question posed by Atul Gawande in his latest book, “Better – a surgeon's notes on performance”. For a chance to win a free copy of Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande and a $5 Starbucks gift card to help lessen your fatigue, follow contest instructions: 1.'Like' this post 2. List Price: $15.00 Your Price: $5.00- National Bestseller The struggle to perform well is universal: each of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. Atul Gawande is a Boston-area surgeon, a staff writer for the New Yorker and a MacArthur Fellow. The answer, or at least a heartfelt explanation, can be found in Atul Gawande's book Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance. Atul Gawande's second book Better is a collection of his experiences as a surgeon. Getting Better at Work (A Review of Atul Gawande's Book "Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance"). Anyway, that means I read four books (Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, A Cool Moonlight, Turn of Mind, and Silent to the Bone) for this theme (five if I finish The Fever in time). A surgeon looks at the pros and cons of forceps, Cesarean sections, epidural anesthesia, fetal heart monitors and other fixtures of modern delivery rooms. When I'm And that's the case with a book I just finished: Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, by Atul Gawande. His first book, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, was a finalist for the 2002 National Book Award. Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance. €The struggle to perform well is universal,but in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision.” Better A Surgeons Notes on Performance Better: A Surgeons Notes on
. By Percy Monteiro on October 2, 2009. In a ramble through a book store in Oberlin, Ohio I happened upon what I thought might be good.