Atul Gawande

The article, The Score by Atul Gawande, illustrated the history of pregnancy deliveries with the article profiling Elizabeth Rourke and her journey of giving birth to her daughter. The Score is an article where I acquired knowledge from a topic that I knew very little about. For example, the process of how women are in labor and how long they must wait until they are “in labor.” In addition, how long they must wait until their contractions are in a certain pace, “the nurse asked if the…

make mistakes in order to become a better doctor. In the book Complications by Atul Gawande, Gawande gives his personal accounts of his seven year residency and the anecdotes from other doctor's careers to support the sundry of arguments he makes, the most prominent being that practice leads to more success and less mistakes. Going back to practice leading to less mistakes, there is a major flaw with practicing that Gawande pointed out. The problem that arises with doctors and surgeons needing…

“The Mistrust of Science” by Atul Gawande is a commencement address at the California Institute of Technology. Atul Gawande calls upon the institutes graduates to take a stance and defend the common misconceptions and myths about scientific issues concerning today’s society. The commencement’s main goal was to use a logical thought process to defend the scientific evidence against common misconception. For example, Atul Gawande says “They deploy false analogies and other logical fallacies… when…

Self-Reflection on Atul Gawande’s book, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Adno Gatah St. Catherine University Due: November 16th, 2017 The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the issue of mortality and discuss perspectives from Atul Gawande’s book, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End that resonated with this me. I will reflect the issue of death in the context of my religion and Somali culture while identifying perspectives that resonated with me in…

no matter how much you think you know or mastered there is always room to learn. In the process, you will learn new things and rediscover better ways of doing things you already knew. This idea that you can never stop learning was witnessed by Atul Gawande, a surgeon who initially thought his performance in operating room has reached a level where he couldn’t get any better than he already is, that he is at the height of his performance, but then realized that even a well-trained surgeon like…

The tragedy known as the Holocaust occurred decades ago and since camps were liberated in 1945, survivors have been opening up to tell their own personal experience of the harrowing time. Dr. Atul Gawande came across a patient who happened to be a Holocaust survivor from Germany inciting him to write about what he acquired from learning about her life struggles and the urgent operation she needed. Along with the use of historical evidence, truncated sentences, and added emphasis, Gawande’s…

and problems. In “Hellhole,” Atul Gawande, a writer for The New Yorker, explores the effects…

This book written by Atul Gawande is a journey through the process of death. The author uses interesting stories to illustrate his points in every /chapter. He takes us through the process of aging, and eventually dying, in a graceful and peaceful way, pointing out several problems in the way that end of life care is done as well as the way we as a society treat our elderly, providing historical and current evidence to support his points. He even draws in a personal connection by discussing the…

The discussion on washing hands by Atul Gawande, who is an author, physician, and humanitarian. He is committed to making the medical practice more humane and reduces post-operative deaths on a global level. He is not just a physician practicing, someone who gets up day after day to go work and get a paycheck. He is a physician who is motivated to making a difference in the medical word. I personally have no constraints around his work I admire him for speaking up and speaking out and the…

current discussions on Atul Gawande’s book Being Mortal, a controversial issue has been whether the treatment of dying patients is wrong. One viewpoint against Gawande's ideas are that doctors are only responsible for treating a patient and keeping them alive. From this perspective, dealing with a patient's feeling’s as well as coping with death are not as important as finding a way to somehow keep the patient alive for the longest possible time. From a conflicting position, Gawande claims that…