conditions‚ approaches to challenging task and communication style when collaboration with colleagues are obligatory‚ thus are similar key components in the medical and teaching profession. However‚ according to the article‚ “The Bell Curve” by Atul Gawande‚ accountability for the results‚ which considered “average work”‚ does not hold prominence as do in the teaching profession. Like the attributes of Dr. Warren Warwick‚ director of Fairview University Children’s Hospital‚ an exemplary teacher has
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A Good Life/A Good Death Atul Gawande’s book Being Mortal and the corresponding Frontline Program described many examples of individuals being diagnosed with terminal illnesses and how they and the medical professionals responded to their diagnoses. I was surprised to learn that Gawande‚ who is an oncologist‚ and many of his colleagues did not want to tell their terminally ill patients that they are dieing. I understand that informing someone that they are dying would not be a pleasant task to undertake
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The Author Atul Gawande is a surgeon‚ staff writer for The New Yorker and a professor at the Harvard Medical School. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End was an inspiring book that unwrap people’s mind for discussion and question our current practice of medicine and care. It is easy for audiences of all ages to relate to this book even if the young do not think about the process of death. It has a comprehensive coverage of medical sociology‚ where it deliberates on the evolution‚ controversial
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In “How Do We Heal Medicine?”‚ Atul Gawande in an inspiring Ted Talk asserts that the complexity of modern medicine has caused us to fail millions of patients‚ however‚ if we work together we can begin to make our health care system work. He voices an instance where he and a team of people created a checklist for surgery to battle complications and patient death. In which so he articulates‚ “We implemented this checklist in eight hospitals around the world‚ deliberately in places from rural Tanzania
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Biology Enriched Extra Credit Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance Chapter 1: On Washing Hands Mr. Gawande starts his literature on washing hands. He introduces two friends a microbiologist and an infectious disease specialist. Both work hard and diligently against the spread of diseases just like Semmelweis who is mentioned in the chapter. Something I learned‚ that not many realize‚ is that each year two million people acquire an infection while they are in the hospital
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Case 1 A cafeteria at GDGWI has one special dish it serves like clockwork every Thursday at noon. This supposedly tasty dish is a casserole that contains sautéed onions‚ boiled sliced potatoes‚ green beans‚ and cream of mushroom soup. Unfortunately‚ students fail to see the special quality of this dish‚ and they loathingly refer to it as the Killer Casserole. The students reluctantly eat the casserole‚ however‚ because the cafeteria provides only a limited selection of dishes for Thursday’s lunch
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Together Specter and Gawande both touch upon science‚ journalism and public policies in their own style. Gawande writes about science that has already been proven to be beneficial but slow at implementation. Antisepsis‚ anesthesia‚ kangaroo care and oral rehydration were all researched‚ experimented and proven to be the best solution for each pressing problem. Although people doubted the actual use of each treatment‚ they could not argue with scientific facts of benefits. On the contrary‚ Specter
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Gawande uses examples from his own experiences to explain how medical professionals can be competent and more than competent. He describes that medical practitioners are competent when they are knowledgeable about diseases and when they can perform medical procedures. In the excerpt‚ Gawande demonstrated his competence by showing his ability to follow another internist’s instructions and by performing appropriate procedures for a “seventy-something-year-old Portuguese woman had been admitted because…she
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fascinated to find out all of the quirky superstitious thing that star athletes do before games. I was the perfect way to lead into the topic of superstition versus facts. In this chapter Gawande cover the two topics very well‚ and keeps his readers hooked one the topics the whole time. In this chapter Gawande begins by explaining how humans perceive and apply superstition into their live by using some great examples like “Michael Jordan‚ Jack Nicklaus and etc. He then continues and leads into the
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their patients they were practically meat on a cutting block. But as Dr. Marsh grew older and more experienced he realized the guilt associated with mistakes and the loss of patients; after the regulations‚ he hates were put in place he was able to better empathize with his patients. The guilt and empathy is most apparent when you look at the following passage from his book Do No Harm: Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery‚ where from time to time he goes to pray – a place of bitterness
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