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#42 Atul Gawande: The Path to Perpetual Progress

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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What Does It Mean to Be Good at What We Do?

In your book, complications, one of the things that you explore is what makes a good doctor. Can you expand on that for us? Well, i think i've been interested in that from the very beginning. So complications was written out of my early new yorker articles where i was a trainee in surgery. And i was very interested in a, what does it mean to be good at what we do as a doctor when i'm still learning and practising on human beings?

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