Knowledge@SMU
Publication Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
4-2007
Abstract
In Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, Atul Gawande, a surgeon who also is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, examines both the utilitarian and the human sides of medical practice. In the book, he examines what goes right in American medical care, what goes wrong, how things either succeed or fail, and what might be done to improve the system. Among the examples he provides: A polio "mop up" in Karnataka, where Indian health care workers deployed 37,000 vaccinators to immunize 4 million children – in three days.
Disciplines
Economics | Health Economics | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Copyright Owner and Holder
Copyright © Singapore Management University 2012
Licece/Creative Commons Licence
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Article ID
1051
Subject(s)
Health Economics
Citation
Knowledge@SMU.
How Doctors and Patients Get Better. (2007).
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/ksmu/97