Atul Gawande is the author of several best-selling books, including Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science, Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, and The Checklist Manifesto.
A surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, he is also Executive Director of Ariadne Labs, a research center for public health innovations.
In this compelling Ted Talk, Atul Gawande asks the question, “How do we get better, even great, at what we do?” from a surgeon’s perspective.