Like Warren Warwick, of Fairview University Children’s Hospital in Minnesota–he’s a great example. So you just need to find the patterns of what has worked. But there are things that you can do only if you are in such an organization. Functioning in such a world is not all that pleasant. I work in a bureaucracy with 10,000 employees. But the experience of it feels like a disaster every day. Our standards have changed, and we’re able to do so much that we look at increased health care for all as a big crisis. And just by inventing a simple score, she spurred hundreds of little changes that made a huge difference. Here’s a woman confronting a situation where losing a child in childbirth was a common experience. There are huge examples of how we’ve been able to change our lives. Tell us something about the medical system that people don’t know.
All we can do is try to think in morally clear terms about our goals and try to be creative. We’re confronted with the complexity of society now, and the experience of actually dealing with it is painful. Science has brought us thousands of things we can do–and each is very complicated, and most of it resides in the heads of many different people. are thinking, how well can this guy operate?Īre you describing inherent problems in medicine? I do cancer surgery primarily, so by the time get to me, they’re scared, they have other things on their minds. How many of your patients know you have this other identity as a writer? I wanted to see what it is like to respond to an outbreak of polio in India. That also meant travelling to more unusual places.
I wanted to show how situations of risk really work, how people in different situations grapple with that. In Better, I’m trying to examine all the gaps involved in what we do. The skeleton of Complications was my own training as a surgeon. You did a bit more legwork on this book than for your first Collection, Complications.
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