La medicina ha triunfado en nuestro tiempo y ha convertido los terribles peligros del parto, de las heridas y las enfermedades en problemas manejables. Pero cuando se trata de las realidades inevitables del envejecimiento y la muerte, lo que hace la medic...
En El efecto checklist Atul Gawande nos explica cómo las listas de comprobación han hecho posibles algunas de las actividades más difíciles realizadas por los seres humanos, desde pilotar aviones a construir rascacielos de una...
Complicaciones es una recopilación de historias de médicos y pacientes, historias dramáticas y reveladoras que demuestran que se cometen errores mortales y que incluso los médicos más expertos pueden equivocarse. Tambi&e...
La lucha por cumplir lo mejor posible con nuestros cometidos es universal: sin que importe la actividad que desempeñemos, cada uno de nosotros se enfrenta a la fatiga, la escasez de recursos y las limitaciones que le son propias. Pero no existe...
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post , The New York Times Book Review , NPR, and Chicago Tribune, now in paperback with a new reading group guide
Giving an account of the life of a surgeon, this book looks at what it is like to cut into people`s bodies and the - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. It includes chronicles of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the...
For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become...
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
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 isâ...
A New York Times bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and how we can deal with it. The modern world has given us stupendous know-how, yet avoidable failures continue to plague us...
The bestselling author of Complications reveals what you need to be a great surgeon - and shows how everyone can improve at what they doThe struggle to perform well is universal, but nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine. In...
Giving an account of the life of a surgeon, this book looks at what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. It includes chronicles of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to...
The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession