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).

The Best American Science Writing 2006

Literature & Fiction

GAWANDE, Atul

United States

Ecco

Autobiography of Atul Gawande, a surgeon in United States of America; this personal narrative exposes surgery of its follies to the extent it is human as it is idealised science.

Complications: Notes from the Life of a Young Surgeon

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Penguin Group USA

Acclaimed surgeon and writer atul gawande finds a remedy to tackle immensely complex problems with the humblest of techniques: the checklist in riveting stories, gawande takes us from austria, where an emergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hour underwater, to michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection and he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disaster response to investment banking, skyscraper construction and business of all kinds

Penguin Books India The Checklist Manifesto : How To Get Things Right [Paperback] [Oct 28, 2014] ATUL GAWANDE

Penguin India

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is―uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.
Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Metropolitan Books

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

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).

Women's Health

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

In his latest bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and how we can deal with it.
The modern world has given us stupendous know-how. Yet avoidable failures continue to plague us in health care, government, the law, the financial industry—in almost every realm of organized activity. And the reason is simple: the volume and complexity of knowledge today has exceeded our ability as individuals to properly deliver it to people—consistently, correctly, safely. We train longer, specialize more, use ever-advancing technologies, and still we fail. Atul Gawande makes a compelling argument that we can do better, using the simplest of methods: the checklist. In riveting stories, he reveals what checklists can do, what they can’t, and how they could bring about striking improvements in a variety of fields, from medicine and disaster recovery to professions and businesses of all kinds. And the insights are making a difference. Already, a simple surgical checklist from the World Health Organization designed by following the ideas described here has been adopted in more than twenty countries as a standard for care and has been heralded as “the biggest clinical invention in thirty years” (The Independent).

Business & Money

Business Culture

Title: Being Mortal( Medicine and What Matters in the End) Binding: Hardcover Author: AtulGawande Publisher: MetropolitanBooks

Being Mortal

Medical Books

Administration & Medicine Economics

Doubleday, Canada

From surgeon and bestselling author Atul Gawande, a book that has the potential to change medicine--and lives. Being Mortal looks at the way modern medicine has changed the experience of dying, what the implications of this change are for each of us, and what we would need to do to change a system that knows a lot about prolonging life but little about tending to death. At the heart of this book is something larger and more lasting than even its agenda for how to effect change: it is a deeply humane portrayal of how our society copes with who we really are. We are not economic beings. We are not political beings. We are not digital beings or analog beings, social beings or solitary beings. We are mortal beings. And in that is every important thing to know about how we must live.

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Medicine

Anchor Canada

Doctors are trained to keep their patients alive as long as possible but they are never taught how to prepare people to die and yet for many patients, particularly the old and terminally ill, death is a question of when, not if should the medical profession rethink its approach to them? and in what way? with aging populations and hospital costs rising globally, these questions have become increasingly relevant in his new book, atul gawande argues that an acceptance of mortality must lie at the center of the way we treat the dying using his experiences (and missteps) as a surgeon, comparing attitudes towards aging and death in the west and in india and drawing a powerful portrait of his fathers final years-a doctor who chose how he should go-gawande has produced a work that is not only an extraordinary account of loss but one whose ideas are truly important questioning, profound and deeply moving, being mortal is a masterpiece

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Gawande, Atul (2014) Hardcover

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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The Best American Science Writing 2006

Complications: Notes from the Life of a Young Surgeon

Penguin Books India The Checklist Manifesto : How To Get Things Right [Paperback] [Oct 28, 2014] ATUL GAWANDE

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

Being Mortal

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Gawande, Atul (2014) Hardcover

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science