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...Gawande??who is also a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine and the best-selling author of two other books: “Better: A Surgeon’s Notes On Performance” and “Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science”—says he is a surgeon first. But he has also been distinguished for his writing...
...Central to this principle is his concept of the “positive deviant” in medicine—a person who simply outperforms others in his or her field. It is Gawande??s project in “Better” to understand why some people or institutions in medicine are great while others are just, well, okay...
...Gawande??s career as a writer, which began in 1997 when he started writing a short column for the Internet magazine “Slate,” has always emphasized the human side of medicine...
...Gawande??s writing applies both his academic and professional experience to examine the world of medicine...
...Gawande??s publishers say his work takes on prominent questions in unconventional ways...