I must confess that I started my blog because I felt I needed a) to make my website more active and b) to relate to visitors more as the real everyday me. But I’ve come to thoroughly enjoy writing it. It’s rather compulsive, actually. Getting feedback from readers has spurred me on and proved unexpectedly [...]
Atul Gawande is a gifted surgeon and best selling author. No ordinary man, you might think. And yet, in his book, Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance, he concludes that his place in the world, like everyone else’s, is inevitably small. Compared with the people who plan and execute the eradication of polio from southern [...]