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Atul Gawande
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November 05, 1965
in Brooklyn, New York, The United States
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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2003
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
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2007
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
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2009
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The Best American Science Writing 2006
by Atul Gawande , Jesse Cohen 4.01 avg rating — 201 ratings
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2006
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Potęga checklisty. Jak opanować chaos i zyskać swobodę w działaniu
by Atul Gawande, Rafał Śmietana 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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2011
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The Checklist Manifesto
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The Best American Science Writing 2000
by James Gleick , Jesse Cohen , Oliver Sacks (Goodreads Author) 3.98 avg rating — 46 ratings
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2000
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“We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.”
― Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
― Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
“better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.”
― Atul Gawande, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
― Atul Gawande, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
“We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right - one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in.”
― Atul Gawande, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
― Atul Gawande, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
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