Better

National Bestseller

The struggle to perform well is universal: each of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives may be on the line with any decision.

Atul Gawande, the New York Times bestselling author of Complications, examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in this complex and risk-filled profession. At once unflinching and compassionate, Better is an exhilarating journey, narrated by "arguably the best nonfiction doctor-writer around" (Salon.com).

• Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
• Too Late to Die Young
• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
• Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Random House Reader's Circle)
• How Doctors Think
• The Other End Of The Stethoscope - 33 Insights for Excellent Patient Care
• When Breath Becomes Air
• The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
• Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years