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A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

By: Atul Gawande

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A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

By: Atul Gawande

National Bestseller 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 may be on the line with any decision. Atul Gawande, the New York Times bestselling author of Complications, examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in this complex and risk-filled profession. At once unflinching and compassionate, Better is an exhilarating journey, narrated by "arguably the best nonfiction doctor-writer around" (Salon.com).

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Being Mortal

Medicine and What Matters in the End

By: Atul Gawande

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Being Mortal

Medicine and What Matters in the End

By: Atul Gawande

#1 New York Times Bestseller 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, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.

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A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

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The struggle to perform well is universal, but nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable. His vivid stories take us to battlefield surgical tents in Iraq, to a polio outbreak in India and to malpractice courtrooms around the country. He discusses the ethical dilemmas of doctors' participation in lethal injections, examines the influence of money on modern medicine and recounts the astoundingly contentious history of hand-washing. Finally, he gives a brutally honest insight into life as a practising surgeon. Unflinching but compassionate, Gawande's investigation into medical professionals and their progression from good to great provides a detailed blueprint for success that can be used by everyone.

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Profile Books

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1847651232

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Complications

A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

By: Atul Gawande

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Complications

A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

By: Atul Gawande

A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is -- complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human. Atul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. He also shows us what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain for which there is no physical cause; a young woman with nausea that won't go away; a television newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job. Gawande offers a richly detailed portrait of the people and the science, even as he tackles the paradoxes and imperfections inherent in caring for human lives. At once tough-minded and humane, Complications is a new kind of medical writing, nuanced and lucid, unafraid to confront the conflicts and uncertainties that lie at the heart of modern medicine, yet always alive to the possibilities of wisdom in this extraordinary endeavor. Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

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Metropolitan Books

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1429972106

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Being Mortal

Illness, Medicine and what Matters in the End

By: Atul Gawande

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Being Mortal

Illness, Medicine and what Matters in the End

By: Atul Gawande

New York Times Number One bestseller Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2014In Being Mortal, Gawande examines his experiences as a surgeon, as he confronts the realities of aging and dying in his patients and in his family, as well as the limits of what he can do. And he emerges with story that crosses the globe and history, exploring questions that range from the curious to the profound: What happens to people's teeth as they get old? Did human beings really commit senecide, the sacrifice of the elderly? Why do the aged so dread nursing homes and hospitals? How should someone give another person the dreadful news that they will die? This is a story told only as Atul Gawande can - penetrating people's lives and also the systems that have evolved to govern our mortality. Those systems, he observes, routinely fail to serve - or even acknowledge - people's needs and priorities beyond mere survival. And the consequences are devastating lives, families, and even whole economies. But, as he reveals, it doesn't have to be this way. Atul Gawande has delivered an engrossing tale of science, history and remarkable characters in the vein of Oliver Sacks.Published in partnership with the Wellcome Collection.WELLCOME COLLECTION is the free museum and library for the incurably curious. It explores the connections between medicine, life and art in the past, present and future. It is part of Wellcome, a global charitable foundation that exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas thrive.

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1846685818

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The Checklist Manifesto

How to Get Things Right

By: Atul Gawande

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The Checklist Manifesto

How to Get Things Right

By: Atul Gawande

Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly place in the hands of the most highly skilled people. But avoidable failures are common, and the reason is simple: the volume and complexity of our knowledge has exceeded our ability to consistently deliver it - correctly, safely or efficiently. In this groundbreaking book, Atul Gawande makes a compelling argument for the checklist, which he believes to be the most promising method available in surmounting failure. Whether you're following a recipe, investing millions of dollars in a company or building a skyscraper, the checklist is an essential tool in virtually every area of our lives, and Gawande explains how breaking down complex, high pressure tasks into small steps can radically improve everything from airline safety to heart surgery survival rates. Fascinating and enlightening, The Checklist Manifesto shows how the simplest of ideas could transform how we operate in almost any field.

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1846683130

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Being Mortal

Medicine and What Matters in the End

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Complications

A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

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Lanthanide-Doped Aluminate Phosphors

Synthesis, Properties, and Applications

By: Atul Yerpude,Vijay B. Pawade,Sanjay J. Dhoble,Lehlohonolo Fortune Koao

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Lanthanide-Doped Aluminate Phosphors

Synthesis, Properties, and Applications

By: Atul Yerpude,Vijay B. Pawade,Sanjay J. Dhoble,Lehlohonolo Fortune Koao

Lanthanide Doped Aluminate Phosphors: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications overviews advances in research on aluminate-based long persistent phosphors and their applications in lighting, display, radiation dosimetry and imaging. The book reviews the most important categories of rare earth aluminate-based phosphors, including aluminosilicates and aluminoborates. This category of material is attractive for a wide range of applications because of their high quantum efficiency, long afterglow life, chemical stability and optical properties, which is discussed throughout. Optical properties, in particular, are emphasized in the book along with the relationship of the chemical composition and doping of these materials and their optical performance. This book is suitable for researchers and practitioners working in academia and research and development in industry in the disciplines of materials science and engineering, chemistry and physics. - Introduces rare-earth doped aluminates synthesis and characterization strategies, properties and applications - Focuses on different types of aluminates, such as monoaluminates, binary aluminates and hexaaluminates, aluminoborates and aluminosilicate systems - Discusses optical properties of phosphors, including photoluminescent long persistence and thermo luminescence

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0323907148

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Handbook of Antimicrobial Coatings

By: Atul Tiwari

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Handbook of Antimicrobial Coatings

By: Atul Tiwari

Handbook of Antimicrobial Coatings is the first comprehensive work on the developments being made in the emerging field of antimicrobial coatings. Crucial aspects associated with coating research are presented in the form of individual chapters. Particular close attention has been given to essential aspects necessary to understand the properties of novel materials. The book introduces the reader to progress being made in the field, followed by an outline of applications in different areas. Various methods and techniques of synthesis and characterization are detailed as individual chapters. Chapters provide insight into the ongoing research, current trends and technical challenges in this rapidly progressing field. The covered topics were chosen so that they can be easily understood by new scholars as well as advanced learners. No book has been written on this topic thus far with so much crucial information for materials scientists, engineers and technologists. - Offers the first comprehensive work on developments being made in the emerging field of antimicrobial coatings - Features updates written by leading experts in the field of anti-microbial coatings - Includes discussions of coatings for novel materials - Provides various methods and techniques of synthesis and characterization detailed in individual chapters

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0128119837

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The Best American Science Writing 2006

By: Atul Gawande

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The Best American Science Writing 2006

By: Atul Gawande

Together these twenty-one articles on a wide range of today's most leading topics in science, from Dennis Overbye, Jonathan Weiner, and Richard Preston, among others, represent the full spectrum of scientific inquiry, proving once again that "good science writing is evidently plentiful" (American Scientist).

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Harper Collins

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006072644X

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Perioperative Critical Care

By: Atul P Kulkarni,JV Divatia,Sohan Lal Solanki

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Perioperative Critical Care

By: Atul P Kulkarni,JV Divatia,Sohan Lal Solanki

Perioperative care is the care that is given before and after surgery. This textbook is a complete guide to the anaesthetic and critical care management of patients undergoing complex surgeries in all organ systems of the body. Topics cover all age groups – neonates, children, and adults. Divided into 11 sections, the book begins with a general overview of critical care in the perioperative period discussing airway management, pain, fluid and electrolyte therapy, shock, arterial blood gas analysis, respiratory failure and mechanical ventilation, and thromboembolism. The following sections cover surgeries in different organ systems and patient groups – cardiothoracic and vascular, neurosciences, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, orthopaedics, head and neck, and transplantation. The final section explains selected miscellaneous topics including nutrition, haemodynamic monitoring, echocardiography, renal replacement therapy, and antibiotics. Compiling 700 pages, the comprehensive text is further enhanced by clinical photographs, diagrams and tables. Key points Comprehensive guide to perioperative critical care in neonates, children and adults Covers complex surgeries in all organ systems Includes discussion on imaging, airway management, and ventilation Highly illustrated with clinical photographs, diagrams and tables

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Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers

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9390020506

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9789390020508

Relationship Selling

The Fine Art of Consultative Sales

By: Atul Uchil

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Relationship Selling

The Fine Art of Consultative Sales

By: Atul Uchil

Secrets To Success Unveiled Within! Everyone has heard the following: People like to buy - People hate being sold or being forced to buy - People buy from people that they like and trust. Therefore, it stands to reason that if you are the person your clients trust they will buy from you without you having to sell them anything. How then do you become the trusted advisor to your clients? How do you establish and maintain long-term relationships? This book reveals the best kept secrets of successful relationship selling and is a must-read for every consultant and sales professional. Although, if you are looking for a well-structured book with information delivered in precise (in other words dry and boring) format, this may not be the best book for you. However, if you are looking for an abundance of relevant information interspersed with over almost a quarter century of real-life experiences both good and bad narrated with a lot of passion and caring, you will find this book stimulating and insightful.

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1432715003

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Being Mortal

Being Mortal

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Complications

Complications

Being Mortal

Being Mortal

The Checklist Manifesto

The Checklist Manifesto

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Better

Being Mortal

Being Mortal

Complications

Complications

Lanthanide-Doped Aluminate Phosphors

Lanthanide-Doped Aluminate Phosphors

Handbook of Antimicrobial Coatings

Handbook of Antimicrobial Coatings

The Best American Science Writing 2006

The Best American Science Writing 2006

Perioperative Critical Care

Perioperative Critical Care

Relationship Selling

Relationship Selling

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