Better - Atul Gawande (2007)Atul Gawande is a recently qualified general surgeon from the US, who has written this non fiction book which looks at ways within medicine, and in life that we can do better. Looking at vaious way medicine has changed practice, from the way the US army has changed sunglasses on soldiers which resulted in less penetrating eye injuries, to the Indian search to irradicate polio.
Dr Gawande presents an enjoyable ride to on the journey to his discoveries, filled with many personal tales he also considers some of the big issues such as medical malpractice and the amount of money spent in the last six months of life (often 80% of medical spending).
At the end he dishes oout sme great advice for medical students, at lectues he gives at medical school. One of them is to keep writing, that "by offering your reflections to an audience, even a small one, you make yourself part of the larger world. An audience is a community. The published world is a secloration of membership in that community, and also of a willingness to contribute something meaningful to it. So choose your audience. Write something". 4/5
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