Gawande, Atul <br/><br/>
Better  : a surgeon's notes on performance 
/ Atul Gawande 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York  : Metropolitan  , 2007. 
 - x, 273 p.  ; 22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Gawande candidly weaves a tapestry of essays on topics as varied as hospital hand washing, polio in India, surgical tents in the Iraq war, physicians' salaries, malpractice insurance, and doctors' roles in lethal injections. The essays are united, as they highlight opportunities for improvement within the medical community, which serves as a successful framework for Gawande's study of a profession predicated on betterment. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780312427658 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006046962 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Gawande, Atul
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Internal medicine----Case studies<br/>Medicine
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC66  / .G39 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>616 GAW