Atul Gawande

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. -Atul Gawande. A Reaction Paper. By - Malay Parekh Q1. Atul Gawande talks about various culture and the difference in their approach towards the elderly. He starts with talking about how his father adopted to every aspect of American life except the way we treat our elderly. Dr. Gawande talks about how the elders are treated in India. He talks about the time when he went to visit his grandfather. His grandfather had the aging effects…

amongst the group. Gawande investigates the management of multifaceted nature in medicine, accounting, infrastructure development, hotel management, and aeronautics. In doing accordingly, he finds that the checklist is the device of the choice. Checklists offer a system for compelling slip-ups as for the known. There is an old saying as to the evil presence you know being better than anything the devil you don't. Checklists are charms against the evil spirits we know. Gawande proceeds to talk…

The Bell Curve is a well written essay by Dr. Atul Gawande in relation to patients and their diseases, the treatment they do or don’t receive, and what happens when they find out about how good their doctors really are. The Cincinnati Children’s Hospital thought they were doing everything they could to treat patients with cystic fibrosis, by following regular practices for that particular disease. Everyone received the same treatment, medication, therapy twice a day etc. but data showed that…

impossible to have a complete understanding or expertise in a field if there was no genuine interest, previous training, practice, or knowledge. In his piece, “Education of a Knife,” Atul Gawande, an expert surgeon, claims, “Surgeons, as a group adhere to a curious egalitarianism. They believe in practice, not talent” (Gawande 19). While he claims that this holds true in the art of surgery, I argue that it is a universal…

Annielle Grindley PHC6588.310S17 Book title: Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and what Matters in the End, 2014. The book, Being Mortal: Medicine and what matters in the End, is written from the point of view of a surgeon and deals with the role of medicine and medical professionals in the process of aging and dying. Dr. Gawande confronts the harsh reality that we all inevitably will die, however with the advancements in modern medicine and improvements in public health, many persons…

In Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, bestseller author Atul Gawande son of both parents who were doctors and he, himself is a practicing surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He addresses his issues from his profession’s ultimate arguing. He is the author of three bestselling books and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He chose to examine the old age and how nursing, medicine, and healthcare plays in a role in for aging…

In Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science, Atul Gawande, an experienced general surgeon, discusses the limitations and obstacles one must face in the world of medicine today. Throughout the book, he reveals stories and patient cases he has faced in order to instill his point in his audience: medicine is human, and with that, it is not perfect. Gawande’s writing flows very well, and the stories he presents can be enjoyed and analyzed by a wide audience. However, persons with a…

Childbirth Went Industrial” by Atul Gawande, Gawande explains how childbirth has gone from a natural process of life to a industrial process where you have to have surgery to take out the baby. In the first pages, Gawande give an example of a woman named Elizabeth Rourke. She was going through labor and wanted a natural birth. However, in the 39th hour of labor, Rourke had surgery to give birth to her baby. Cases like this happen every time. In the article, Gawande describe human birth. He also…

Even after all this examination Gawande still doesn't impart all his confidence into the checklist as an instrument for specialists. In this particular chapter, Mr. Gawande found three cases out of five where the checklist was not been used and found that we had missed something. In one of the surgery, the patient did not get the antibiotic before the incision and, fortunately, the surgeon performing the operation asked if the antibiotic was given within the last six minutes by reading the…

with great difficulty walked the length of the arena and then 20 steps up to sit in the stands. “I was almost overcome just witnessing it”, Dr. Gawande writes. “Here is what a different kind of care—a different kind of medicine—makes possible, I thought to myself.” In the book’s final chapter, he recounts his father’s death and describes a scene from…