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#42 Atul Gawande: The Path to Perpetual Progress

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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The Duty of Care to the Patient

Tension between duty to provide best care possible and the need to learn. 'My primary duty is to the benefit of this patient', he says, but we all benefit from learning as a society. He argues that teams are better than individual doctors because they can be taught by each other.

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