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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, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes,...
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The struggle to perform well is universal: each 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 with every decision. Author Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable. Gawande's stories take us to battlefield...
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2002
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In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel’s edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is—uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.
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A comienzos del siglo XXI hemos acumulado unos conocimientos tremendos y los hemos puesto en manos de las personas mejor formadas, más cualificadas y trabajadoras de nuestra sociedad. No obstante, ese saber es a menudo inmanejable. Los fracasos evitables son frecuentes y persistentes, incluso desmoralizantes y frustrantes, en muchos campos que van desde la medicina a las finanzas, desde el mundo empresarial a la política. El motivo es cada vez más...
