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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

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. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is-uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human. more

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-15-2009; Gawande and the Gordian Knot; This book is the most involved, evocative, and well-written medical narrative I've ever read. "Complications" was recommended to me by an emergency medicine physician whose medical opinion I hold in the highest regard. We recently talked...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-31-2009; Great read and contains a bibliography.; Not only are the anecdotes interesting and informative, but there is a bibliography in the back so you can do further study on the subject being discussed. Rigorous writing is definitely appreciated.I did check up on the figure of 32%...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-05-2009; Decent read; - Written well- Good organizationI read this shortly after reading Wendy Moore's book "The Knife Man" which was about the beginning of modern surgery. To read Gawande's book after Moore's book it shows how much and how little we have...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-30-2009; Lucid, Thoughtful, Entertaining; "Complications" was written by Dr. Atul Gawande, a seventh year surgery resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. In it, Gawande uses individual cases from his repertoire of experience to illustrate some of modern health care's...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-15-2009; Gawande and the Gordian Knot; This book is the most involved, evocative, and well-written medical narrative I've ever read. "Complications" was recommended to me by an emergency medicine physician whose medical opinion I hold in the highest regard. We recently talked...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-05-2009; Decent read; - Written well- Good organizationI read this shortly after reading Wendy Moore's book "The Knife Man" which was about the beginning of modern surgery. To read Gawande's book after Moore's book it shows how much and how little we have...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-02-2008; I didn't finish; I just couldn't finish this book! I thought it would be better--but as I am reading the words they are more and more unfamiliar. I don't want to read a book where you spend more than 3/4 of the time looking up the words!; read full review | report as inappropriate

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