Atul Gawande

In the first chapter of The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande, “the Problem of Extreme Complexity”, Gawande recalls a story of a little girl from Austria, who fell into an icy pond for thirty minutes and was later fished out. Her parents performed mouth to mouth for several minutes while waiting for a helicopter to take her to a hospital. She was unresponsive for two hours, in most cases victims are pronounced dead, but the medical staff was determined to save her life. In a small hospital, they

Atul Gawande is a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a well-known writer in the New York Times, a public health innovator and most relevantly the author of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. Being Mortal has many messages being conveyed to the readers with the most important being our story to tell at the end of life. Everyone’s life will end, some will go too soon and some will live a long life. No matter how long a life lasts, we all want to be able to say we’ve done something

In the film “Being Mortal,” by Atul Gawande, it documents the focus on advance planning of the end of life. His book is known to be on the bestseller lists, and continues to influence and educate family and friends who go through critical life changing situations. Under these life or death circumstances, people have a difficult time dealing with it and have no clue what to do next. This film portrays how to overcome that barrier, the proper steps into hospice care, and valuing that person’s decision

In Atul Gawande's mind blowing speech about doctors dramatically improving their practices using something as simple as a checklist. Dr. Gawande gives many thoughts and ideas concerning experience from history to show the audience that doctors and medical practices have changed a lot over history. Doctors also have had many setbacks and many things that should be changed to further improve their practices. Dr. Gawande begins by explaining how medicine first started and how many patients were incorrectly

In”Overkill”, Atul Gawande, General Surgeon, talks us through an act of habit where doctors are over doing many practices, in a more precise description overkilling. It may even we seen as a follow-up of a previous article he wrote, the Cost Conundrum, where covers half of what is written in this article, which includes medical care, health costs and possibly an ill-fated motivation towards patient care. Gawande, gives us many examples of the miss happenings in the health care profession, further

The main theme of “Final Cut” by Atul Gawande is that medicine is an inexact science and doctors are not always sure of themselves, even if they appear confident. Gawande’s main argument is simply stated: there has been a decline in the amount of autopsies performed in the medical field as a result of medical arrogance; over confident doctors believe they know the cause of death and do not want to perform autopsies. Gawande illustrates his argument by outlining the history of autopsy use in medicine

In this essay “When Doctors Make Mistakes” Atul Gawande (1999) talks about the day when he made a mistake as a doctor. He writes everything that he did step by step to show what he did wrong. He talks about how tried to open her airway and couldn’t so he had attending come help him. He also talks about the patient barely surviving and how the attending had to tell the family that the patient was alive but in a critical condition. He then goes on and talks about other mistakes physicians have made

immense uncertainty envelopes the medical field, and frequent leaps must be made. Some of these ventures are prosperous; however, many render unsuccessful. In Complications, Atul Gawande crafts an alluring view of the medical unknown using tales of his personal medical mistakes. Through the use of ethos, logos, and pathos, Atul Gawande argues that medicine’s vast uncertainty has beneficial influence upon society. First, _________________________________. Throughout the entire novel, he recounts a plethora

Précis 1 Atul Gawande in the chapter education of a knife to his non-fiction novel Complications, asserts that not everyone appreciates the attraction of surgery. Gawande illustrates his thesis by telling the story, his first real procedure, putting a central line that would go into the main blood vessel, an intravenous line that would go into the main blood vessel of the heart, in a patient. Although he had watched his supervising chief resident perform the surgery before, he forgets 3 key

written by three Harvard Medical Students: Susan Pories, Sachin H. Jain, and Gordon Harper. This book is about their success stories, and sometimes their sob stories. My second book choice was called, “Complications”, which was written by, Dr. Atul Gawande. This book looks more closely at the growth of a doctor who has experienced some failures, confusion, and doubt. I chose to read “Complications”, because, for me, I wanted to know hands on about the mistakes that happen inside hospital doors, instead