I'm running late for sleep the night before yet another 30+ hour shift in the ICU so for now I'll just post a link to this perfectly timed New Yorker … elbo.ws/post/…/atul-gawande-is-on-the-right-track-read-this-n…
Well-known doctor and author Atul Gawande has written an important article in this month's The New Yorker entitled “Letting Go.” It raises important issues regarding end-of-life care and decisions patients and their caregivers should … Action For Better Healthcare – http://actionforbetterhealthcare.com/
This week Atul Gawande, MD shed some light on this journey in his thoughtful and sensitive – yes, wise – article, ” Letting Go” in this week's New Yorker … See all stories on this topic »
Sara Thomas Monopoli was pregnant with her first child when her doctors learned that she was going to die. It started with a cough and a pain in her back. www.daylife.com/article/02DAfa14EW7nP?q=Daily…UK
Author Atul Gawande identifies critical ways that patients and families can take control of improving medical care. (01:45) … www.articlesbase.com/…/what-are-hipaa-compliant-medical-tr…
Surgeon and writer Atul Gawande is a great believer in checklists. … By AtulGawande Published by Penguin Viking Price Rs 399; pages 209. Graphic take … week.manoramaonline.com/…/theWeekContent.do?…
Atul Gawande Complications, Better Tracy Kidder Mountains Beyond Mountains, Homecoming Thomas Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude David Foster Wallace Consider the Lobster … My College Guide – http://mycollegeguide.org/blog/
Great book to read: Checklist Manifesto book (http://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/dp/0805091742) by Atul Gawande. (Will post his slides once he sends them) Liveblog notes: Truly following a context model and …
Author Atul Gawande discusses who benefits from doctors being open and frank … Author Atul Gawande discusses why he is so open about his medical errors, …
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Author and surgeon Atul Gawande MD has been named the commencement speaker for Stanford medical school's Class of 2010 Dean Philip Pizzo MD recently …
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As Atul Gawande wrote in his now famous article about McAllen Texas, ” Health-care costs ultimately arise from the accumulation of individual decisions doctors make about which services and treatments to write an order for.” …
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The benefits of using checklists in a variety of fields is the subject of Dr. Atul Gawande's recent book The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. One major obstacle to the wider use of checklists is the perception that doing so …
Listen to the whole interview: www.wnyc.org Atul Gawande, general surgeon at the Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston, staff writer for The New Yorker, and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, explains how more training and advanced technologies dont seem to prevent experts from making costly mistakes, but a simple checklist can. His new book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right looks at how innovative checklists are being adopted in hospitals around the world and how the checklist revolution can expand into fields beyond medicine.
JANUARY 14, 2009 Results show surgical safety checklist drops deaths and complications by more than one third, WHO pilot study finds Toronto, Ontario – An international pilot study involving the Toronto General Hospital (TGH), a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto, and other hospitals from around the world, has found that using a Surgical Patient Safety Checklist significantly reduces surgical complications and mortality. The study, led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Dr. Atul Gawande of the Harvard School of Public Health, appears in the New England Journal of Medicines (www.nejm.org) Online First on Wednesday, January 14, 2009. The study will appear in the journals printed issue on January 29, 2009. visit www.tgwhf.ca to read more
In the August 14, 2008 issue of the Journal, Boucek et al. report on three cases of heart transplantation from infants who were pronounced dead on the basis of cardiac criteria. Moderator Atul Gawande, of Harvard Medical School; George Annas, of the Boston University School of Public Health; Arthur Caplan, of the University of Pennsylvania; and Robert Truog, of Harvard Medical School discuss key ethical aspects of organ donation after cardiac death.
Dear All, Sorry for being away for some time! I wanted to share with you a great program, www.marrow.org, which is the National Marrow Donor Program. By joining the registry (it will be free to do so until June 22nd) you can help potentially save a life! Please see link: www.marrow.org Why should you do this? Please see here for frequently asked questions: www.marrow.org — Here is the article I mention by Atul Gawande about mcallen’s expensive healthcare: www.newyorker.com According to the New York Times, President Obama had his staff and senators read the Gawande article: www.nytimes.com Here is Gawande’s response to skeptics: www.newyorker.com
Atul Gawande, M.D., will discuss methods to improve safety during surgery. For information, visit www.aorn.org. For a more comprehensive conference calendar, visit www.hhnmag.com. Copyright Health Forum Inc. Jan 2010 …
