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050 0 0 _aRC66
_b.G39 2007
082 0 0 _a616 GAW
100 1 _aGawande, Atul
245 1 0 _aBetter
_b: a surgeon's notes on performance
_c/ Atul Gawande
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York
_b: Metropolitan
_c, 2007.
300 _ax, 273 p.
_c; 22 cm.
520 _aGawande 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.
600 1 0 _aGawande, Atul
650 0 _aInternal medicine
_v--Case studies
650 0 _aMedicine
942 _cMO
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