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Ira byock serves as executive director and chief medical officer for the institute for human caring of providence health and services, a 35 hospital health system serving communities across 5. His vivid stories take us to battlefield surgical tents in iraq, to a polio outbreak in india. He is executive director of ariadne labs, a joint center for health systems. Over the past decade, through his writing in the new yorker magazine and his books complications and better, atul gawande has made a name for himself as a writer of exquisitely crafted meditations on the problems and challenges of modern medicine. I have been a fan of atul gawandes work since first reading his books better and complications. Being mortal, atul gawande shop online for books in new zealand. Atul gawande is the author of the checklist manifesto, better, and complications. A surgeons notes on an imperfect science, was nominated for a 2002 national book award. Oct 26, 2014 the author, most recently, of being mortal. Apr 03, 2007 the struggle to perform well is universal. It provides a helpful guide to the ways the medical establishment has come to view ageing, while also point out some approaches to care for the ageing that have broken with that model to great success. Gawandes book is both thoughtfully written and thought provoking. Oct 22, 2014 through the two halves of his book, atul gawande boston surgeon, staff writer for the new yorker, this years choice for the bbc reith lectures has written an impassioned, broadranging.
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