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Who among us hasn't trembled at the very prospect of entering a doctor's office? It should give us all comfort, then, that bestselling author, general surgeon, and MacArthur Fellow Atul Gawande has written Better, a book that challenges surgeons to strive to do better by themselves, by the medical establishment — and above all, by that too-easily-forgotten denomination, their patients. Bring a copy of this book to your next doctor's appointment, and press it into the same hands to which you entrust your own life and health.