{"product_id":"better-9780143423232","title":"Better","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Atul Gawande\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Surgery - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNowhere is the drive to do better more important than in medicine, wherelives are on the line with every decision. Atul Gawande’s gripping storiestake us to battlefield surgical tents in Iraq, delivery rooms in Boston, a poliooutbreak in India, and malpractice courtrooms in the US. He discusses theethical dilemma of lethal injections, examines the influence of money onmodern medicine, and recounts the contentious history of hand-washing.And as in all his writing, he gives us an inside look at his own life as asurgeon. About the AuthorAtul Gawande is the author of three bestselling books: Complications,a finalist for the National Book Award; Better, selected by Amazon.comas one of the ten best books of 2007; and The Checklist Manifesto. Heis also a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a staffwriter for the New Yorker, and a professor at Harvard Medical Schooland the Harvard School of Public Health. He has won the Lewis ThomasPrize for Writing about Science, a MacArthur Fellowship, and two NationalMagazine Awards. In his work in public health, he is Director of AriadneLabs, a joint center for health system innovation, and Chairman of Lifebox,a charity making surgery safer globally. He lives with his wife and threechildren in Newton, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46296376639639,"sku":"9780143423232","price":195.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780143423232.webp?v=1769304560","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/better-9780143423232","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}