Do Surgeons Need a Coach?

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No matter how well-trained people are, few can sustain their best performance on their own.


Do Surgeons Need a Coach? No matter how well-trained people are, few can sustain their best performance on their own.

InstyMeds Amazing things happened when Atul Gawande, MD, asked a surgeon under whom he'd trained during his residency to come into his operating room and coach him on his surgical technique. Read Dr. Gawande's essay, "Coaching a Surgeon: What Makes Top Performers Better?" in the Oct. 3 issue of The New Yorker magazine.

Dan O'Connor

Illustration courtesy of The New Yorker.

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