Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance Environmentalism through hazy afternoons on the

through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable

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you probably know someone who held the door for you from two football fields away

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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance Environmentalism through hazy afternoons on theNATIONAL BESTSELLER The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk filled profession The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line