Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance Free Audiobook Download by Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande's "Better," is a book that is about how things change when we have to deal with other people who are different than us. The book follows Atul Gawande, a surgeon and author from Boston Children's Hospital, and his experiences with patients of all ages, races, genders and backgrounds. In the book he talks about how we need people to be better at their jobs because when they do not perform well they put other people in an unsafe situation. The book also discusses how we need more empathy in our society because most times we are quick to judge others without really understanding what they are going through. The book provides many ways on how we can improve our society by being more empathetic and understanding each other because it

In this audiobook, Atul Gawande describes the importance of striving for excellence and how it can be achieved. A surgeon is faced with a dilemma when faced with a decision to operate on a patient or watch them die waiting for the next available surgeon. The surgeon operates and saves the life of the patient, but later comes to learn that he is not better. Gawande shares his story in order to show how we often hold ourselves to too high standards, ignoring that our patients are just as important as we are.

Gawande takes the listener on a fascinating journey into the lives of five medical professionals - facing aging, setbacks, and burnout.

In 'Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance' Atul Gawande, a renowned surgeon and writer, offers some humbling insights into the practice of medicine. He talks about the culture of surgeons who as a group place too much pressure on themselves and how this leads to unnecessary mistakes in their practices.

When Atul Gawande was introduced to the concept of "better", he found it had been used by politicians, pundits and others as a way to raise the bar. But, in fact, not only do we not know if anything is better than anything else—we can't even agree on what "better" means. The Better is an exploration of why this might be so and why we so often devalue things that are just as good as those that are considered "better."

Atul Gawande, a surgeon, writes this book about his view of the world and how it should be. Gawande observes that many people are tired of seeing what they believe to be big problems in the world and want 'better'. For anyone who has ever had a bad day, this audiobook is for you.