No Risky Chances: The Conversation That Matters Most
[quote]Lacking a coherent view of how people might live successfully all the way to the very end, we have allowed our fates to be controlled by medicine, technology, and strangers.[/quote] Atul …
Medicine
Atul Gawande: Error in Medicine: What Have We Learned?
Over the past decade, it has become increasingly apparent that error in medicine is neither rare nor intractable. Traditionally, medicine has down- played error as a negligible factor in complications …