Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance Atul Gawande
Publisher: Profile Books

The answer, or at least a heartfelt explanation, can be found in Atul Gawande's book Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance. I've read it end-to-end twice, and dipped back into specific sections a few times since. The bestselling author of Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession. White, Complex Adaptive Systems, IEEE International Systems Conference, Montreal, Canada, Apr. Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (Audiobook) By Atul Gawande, read by John Bedford Lloyd Unabridged edition 2007 | 7 hours and 34 mins | ISBN: 142720098X | MP3 96 kbps | 328 MB. Short summary: I loved this book. Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande. The hardest question for the medical profession is to recognize that a significant proportion of the medical practioners are just average, oh no I said it! Few doctors are simply better than the rest! Better: a Surgeon's notes on performance is written by General Surgeon and staff writer for The New Yorker Dr. Gawande, Better, A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, New York: Henry Holt, 2007.