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AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'A GOOD READ' THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'GAWANDE'S MOST POWERFUL, AND MOVING, BOOK' MALCOLM GLADWELL 'BEING MORTAL IS NOT ONLY WISE AND DEEPLY MOVING; IT IS AN ESSENTIAL AND INSIGHTFUL BOOK FOR OUR TIMES&
På trods af vor tids enorme mængde af viden og ekstremt talentfulde mennesker sker der alligevel konstant fejltagelser, der kunne undgås. Grunden dertil er simpel: graden og kompleksiteten af vor viden har overhalet vores evne til konsistent at levere vor
The struggle to perform well is universal, but nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obsta
Dine kære skal dø. Du skal dø. Vi skal alle dø. Vi ved bare ikke hvornår. Medicinske fremskridt skubber hele tiden grænserne for overlevelse, og vi er blevet stadig mere løsrevet fra det faktum, at vi er dødelige. Denne bog handler om oplevelsen af dødeli
This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made.There are accounts of operations that go wrong; of doctors w
The modern world has given us stupendous know-how. Yet avoidable failures continue to plague us in health care, government, the law, the financial industry-in almost every realm of organized activity. And the reason is simple: the volume and complexity of
The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks the
In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is--uncertain,
In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending
Dine kære skal dø. Du skal dø. Vi skal alle dø. Vi ved bare ikke hvornår. Medicinske fremskridt skubber hele tiden grænserne for overlevelse, og vi er blevet stadig mere løsrevet fra det faktum, at vi er dødelige. Denne bog handler om oplevelsen af dødeli
A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. T