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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science Atul Gawande ebook
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Format: djvu
ISBN: 0805063196, 9780805063196
Page: 269

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, is one of the most fascinating and nauseating books that I have ever read. It was okay for the first few hours, but eventually I reached my limit on crazy medical stories. In 2006, he received the MacArthur Award for his research and writing. I chose the book "Complications: A Surgeon's Notes On An Imperfect Science". The book: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, by Atul Gawande. In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. This run was pretty boring and lonely. His essays have appeared in The Best American Essays 2002 and The Best American Science Writing 2002. There is one difference in medicine though: it is people we practice upon." ~ Atul Gawande from Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. His book, "Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science" was a National Book Award finalist. Gently dismantling the myth of medical infallibility, Dr. Book Review- Complications: a Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. Gawande has written two acclaimed and best-selling books: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science and Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance. This is a fascinating little book, written by a surgeon, about the human side of medicine and surgery. In addition to the previous books, the list now includes Dr. Giving an account of the life of a surgeon, this book looks at what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the – literally life and death – decisions that have to be made. Atul Gawande's Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science is essential reading for anyone involved in medicine--on either end of the stethoscope.