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Monthly Archive for August, 2008

Better

I just fin­ished Atul Gawande’s Bet­ter on a friend’s rec­om­men­da­tion, and I owe that friend a drink (or per­haps one of those ter­ri­fy­ing japan­ese sodas she likes). Bet­ter‘s sub­ti­tle is “A surgeon’s notes on per­for­mance”, and that speaks directly to the hook. Gawande is a sur­geon, and that fact shapes his per­spec­tives and argu­ments as he […]

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