![]() 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.Ĭomplications was a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction. 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. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human. ![]() ![]() 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. The description on the back of my book reads: 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. 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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