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

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science | Atul Gawande | A doctor who can see beyond the details

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	Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science Atul Gawande Metropolitan Books, 2002 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 155 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great book

It's a great book. What more can I say? Read it if you are going into medicine. It is a great example of fine writing produced by a physican on the topic of medicine.

A doctor who can see beyond the details

Too many scientific authors get bogged down in technicalities and details. However Dr. Gawande is able to describe things from a more practical and relevant perspective . He succeeds in explaining the '"So what does it mean to me?" question all patients have.

Eye Opening And Insightful

This is about medicine in the way Apocolypse Now is about the war in Vietnam: don't be fooled by the setting. OK, maybe that's going too far, because the book IS about medicine, but there really is a larger, fascinating examination here of human limitations, and how nothing is black-and-white, depsite our fervent otherwise wishes. Dr Gawande writes with the saavy of a spy novelist- it is virtually impossible to put this down in mid chapter without discovering the outcome of the various cases he uses to illustrate his points!

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good book

this is a good book from a physician's perspective on medicine and surgery. i gave it to a friend that's in med school and he has thoroughly enjoyed it.

Thoughtful and Engaging.

An extraordinarily thoughtful work. The first few chapters are gripping, troubling, and somewhat inspiring all at once, though the high expectations that the first chunk of the book establishes aren't entirely met come the last page.

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