Analyzing Atul Gawande's Speech How Do We Heal Medicine

Response and Summary to “How Do We Heal Medicine”
In Atul Gawande’s speech “How do we heal medicine”, the speaker assertively claims that healing medicine requires us to embrace different values from the ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork. A good system was also required for reaching the new values. At the beginning of his speech, Gawande explained how is medicine system changed over the time. Not only by providing present and past data and analyzing those data, but also using Lewis Thomas’ book, “The Youngest Science” as a reference for his audience to under the difference of being a doctor between now and post. By providing this evidence, Gawande has detailed defined the environment of the old-time medicine in his speech and analyzing how is the environment affected the old set of values, which are being dared, at being …show more content…
However, as the medical system changed over the time, the set of values is changed too, based on the technology’s evolution. Human know more treatments and medicines than any time before, doctors could not know “every treatment” anymore. The medical technology is updated, clinicians are all specialists now, even the primary care physicians. Everyone just has a piece of the care. In order for a treatment, a patient needs more clinicians to take care. Therefore, the new and different values showed up, the new values include humility, discipline, teamwork. Gawande claims that setting up a system for the new values is necessary. The new system should ensure all goods consistently all come together for a patient from start to finish in a successful way. The solution that the speaker given to us is a checklist. Gawande provided data to express his audience, the checklist has reduced the complication