Gawande’s writing, I know I’m going to learn something and I’m going to enjoy reading it. I think it could have been better organized, but any time I get to read Dr. Ah, how the time flies.I enjoyed this book. It was new to me!Review:First off - CANNONBALL! My sixth since I started with CBR 5. I worried I’d start reading it and realize I’d read it before, but nope. So when I sorted my Goodreads list for this CBR10 I was shocked to see it on there. NOT for those who get squeamish reading about surgical procedures.In a nutshell: Surgeon Atul Gawande (you probably know him from Being Mortal I think my favorite of his is the Checklist Manifesto) shares stories about his time as a surgeon, exploring the reality that surgeons are humans and make mistakes.Worth quoting: “In the medicine, we have long faced a conflict between the imperative to give patients the best possible care and the need to provide novices with experience.”Why I chose it: I can’t believe I haven’t read this yet - I thought I’d read all of his books. Read moreĬBR 10 BINGO Square: Backlog (Added this to my TBR list on Februthe day I joined Goodreads, apparently)Best for: People who enjoy good writing about medical issues. Gawande offers a richly detailed portrait of the people and the science, even as he tackles the paradoxes and imperfections inherent in caring for human lives.Īt once tough-minded and humane, Complications is a new kind of medical writing, nuanced and lucid, unafraid to confront the conflicts and uncertainties that lie at the heart of modern medicine, yet always alive to the possibilities of wisdom in this extraordinary endeavor. He also shows us what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain for which there is no physical cause a young woman with nausea that won't go away a television newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job.

In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. This audio is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is - complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human.Ītul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes.

A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine.

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