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1861974132. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science is a nonfiction book collection of essays written by the American surgeon Atul Gawande. Gawande wrote this during his general surgery residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital and was published in 2002 by Picador. [1] The book is divided into three sections: Fallibility ...
United States of America. ISBN. 0805095152. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End is a 2014 non-fiction book by American surgeon Atul Gawande. The book addresses end-of-life care, hospice care, and also contains Gawande's reflections and personal stories. He suggests that medical care should focus on well-being rather than survival.
Atul Gawande. Atul Atmaram Gawande (born November 5, 1965) is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the ...
Board secretary Mark A. Rockoff defended the organization's policy, stating that participation in executions "puts anesthesiologists in an untenable position," and that physicians "can assuredly provide effective anesthesia, but doing so in order to cause a patient's death is a violation of their fundamental duty as physicians to do no harm." [2]
This past January, doctors removed the brain tumor and added an auditory brainstem implant to help her with sound recognition. Scaglione is aiming to finish the marathon in under 4 hours. Olga ...
Friend Steve Runion, described the Craigs as a “larger than life” family who were “pillars of the community” he told CNN affiliate WRAL. “They would do anything for you,” he said.
According to surgeon Atul Gawande in The New Yorker, Pronovost's "work has already saved more lives than that of any laboratory scientist in the past decade." [5] In 2008 Time magazine named Pronovost among the 100 most influential people in the world. [6] That same year, Pronovost was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. [1]
Lowering the recommended age for the vaccine will expand eligibility to people under 65 with health conditions that make them more likely to develop severe disease from the bacteria.