Atul Gawande writes as if he's telling a story. He shares his historical anecdotes and personal experiences about how people cope with growing old and/or reaching the terminal stages of one's illness and life. He notes his own thoughts while he and other healthcare workers, including hospice phys...
was recommended to me by a coworker. Great, fast read. For a book about lists, it held my attention and supplied some good illustrative anecdotes.
Read these sentences and tell me that this writer isn't an unbearable idiot:"If choice [of one's surgeon] cannot go to everyone, maybe it is better when it is not allowed at all.""Taking time to bond with patients is fine, but every X ray must be tracked down and every drug dose must be exactly r...
I have had a lot of doctors in my life. The best one I ever had was the surgeon who failed. Before I went under, he told me it would take about 2 hours and had an 85% success rate. When I woke up, nearly five hours had passed, I was in far more pain than I had been led to expect, and he was waiti...