A review by kirbylm12
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande

3.0

This was a thought provoking book. There are many things that the US does in the world of medicine that could be "better". I thought it was interesting to see him in India and how the surgeons there just "made it work" with little to nothing. In the US, that would be unheard of...you'd never have a surgery even scheduled unless there was an OR available with all the proper instruments and personnel. We put a lot of stock in to "doing the right thing in the right way" but, things still go wrong.
I much preferred the stories in his "complications" book to this one.