Atul Gawande
1965
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Biography
Atul Gawande is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He is a practicing general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Gawande is also a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. As a prominent author, he has written several best-selling books, including 'Complications,' 'Better,' and 'Being Mortal,' which explore topics in medicine, healthcare, and the human experience of illness and mortality.
Famous Quotes (5)
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Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.
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Surgery has, more than anything in its history, changed human life.
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We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line.
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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
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The desire for more positive experience is in itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.