Books by Atul Gawande
This 2002 collection of 14 essays by the surgeon and New Yorker writer slice the practice of medicine open to reveal it as it really is: not the practice of carefully calibrated textbook procedures, but an uncertain world of frightened patients, burnt-out doctors, baffling symptomatology and crises of confidence during life-and-death decision-making. Gawande expands on these insights in Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance (2007).
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Interviews where books by Atul Gawande were recommended
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
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The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands
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A Billion Wicked Thoughts
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Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity — What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves
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Nudge
by Cass Sunstein & Richard Thaler
The best books on Health and the Internet, recommended by Elad Yom-Tov
The best books on Health and the Internet, recommended by Elad Yom-Tov
A quick search of your symptoms on the internet may lead to an acute case of ‘cyberchondria.’ But it may also provide data which will improve health and even save lives. Elad Yom-Tov, the author of Crowdsourced Health, recommends books showing how internet data and data science can provide exciting new ways of conducting health and medical research.
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The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
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BrainChains: Your Thinking Brain Explained in Simple Terms
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
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The Antidote
by Oliver Burkeman
The best books on Productivity, recommended by David Allen
The best books on Productivity, recommended by David Allen
If you feel like you lose whole days to procrastination or indecision—or simply have too much to do!—you probably want advice on how improve your productivity. We spoke to David Allen, creator of the perennial bestseller Getting Things Done, about the best books on the subject: why we waste time, and what we can change to be more productive.
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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When Breath Becomes Air
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Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution and the New Science of Life
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Stories of Cancer and Hope
by Kevin Donaghy
The best books on Cancer, recommended by Jarle Breivik
The best books on Cancer, recommended by Jarle Breivik
Many of us view cancer as an enemy that we have to fight and look forward to the day it is eliminated by modern medicine. But that’s not going to happen, says Jarle Breivik, a professor of medicine at the University of Oslo. He argues for a more realistic approach to cancer as a fundamental part of life and what it means to be human.
