Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande explores the difficult situation that doctors face when their patients are near death. Dr. Gawande wants to learn from his mistakes as he feels guilty that he reduced his patient’s limited lifespan. He had had good intentions to attempt to cure his patient’s lung cancer through treatment, but instead worsen the condition. Gawande knew that treatments had a less than five percent chance to cure lung cancer, but he was not honest with his patient trying and maintaining hope. Unfortunately, Gawande’s patient passed away in the hospital with the regret of not spending her final moments with her family. Gawande was trained to save lives, and when his patient died, he felt like a failure. Gawande decided to interview doctors on…

Atul Gawande, a surgical resident, tells his story about being a surgeon and the challenges and obstacles he faced in the field of medicine. He tells about the uncertainties he had about working on patience and how he was afraid and did not want to risk hurting someone on the operating table even though he had to prepare himself for that. On the other hand, even though he was afraid he was also excited by the trill of it and what he could do for people and how to help them. He also states that…

The book The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande is the story of how Gawande, a surgeon and Harvard professor, implemented the usage of a safe surgery checklist through the World Health Organization. In the book, he describes what inspired him to start the journey to safer and more efficient surgeries, and along the way shows how applicable the ideas behind a checklist are into our daily lives. A deeper look into his methods reveals the core of leadership. Somehow, Gawande got hospitals all…

Atul Gawande’s Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance tells the reader about Gawande’s experience while a doctor. Atul Gawande is a general surgeon at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Both, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and an associate professor at Harvard Medical school and the Harvard School of Public Health. Gawande is most clearly an accomplished person, but being this accomplished is enough for him. He wants to be better, he desires to make improvements to his life to benefit…

While these lists stress the necessity of taking extreme precaution and serve as a guide during emergencies, they all point out the dire need for proper collaboration. In fact, within Gawande’s checklist, he employs the measure of thoroughly introducing each person involved in surgeries to improve teamwork between all members of his staff. Not only does this induce a sense of familiarity and camaraderie between the employees, it aids specific members of the team in overcoming their differences…

In discussions of Atul Gawande’s book Being Mortal, one controversial issue has been about the inescapable realities of death and becoming old. On the one hand, Gawande believes that when a person becomes old or near death, the surgeries and spending money on medicines ‘to keep them alive’ are not the best solution and it can complicate ones situation. The best way is to have the support of your loved ones to help get through tough times after surgeries or becoming old. On the other hand,…

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There is no set time as to when to tell a patient they have a certain amount of weeks, months, or years left; therefore, it is a constant struggle for doctors to admit that there is nothing left for them to do and that the patient is going to die. The research that Dr. Gawande conducts to become better at conveying the news of death to his patients can assist him and other doctors in their struggle. There is always a chance that a patient could be the one, the breakthrough. This makes it even…

"Complications: A Surgeon's Note on an Imperfect Science" is a collection of stories and personal essays written by Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgical resident. Gawande describes his experiences in the field, in learning and interpreting medical mysteries and facing uncertainties, and the philosophical questions he encounters from these experiences. In "Complications," Gawande lays out several ways in which medicine is imperfect and will continue to be imperfect. In Part I "How We Learn," Gawande…

Gawande starts his essay with a mistake. It was not a grammatical mistake, but one he made while operating on a woman who was a victim of a car crash. In the end it was not a serious mistake, as the patient went home healthy, but it was still a mistake. He then tells of how common errors can be and how they can happen, as well as how often a doctor is sued. He then explains how most hospitals have a meeting called Morbidity and Morality Conference, or M&M, where mistakes are reviewed and…