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Mar 1, 2003 · From chronic pain to hyperemesis induced by pregnancy, pathological blushing to morbid obesity, he presents the uncertainties and incompleteness of our understanding. The final section is dedicated to considering diagnostic dilemmas, and how patient autonomy influences decisions.
Sep 26, 2011 · Atul 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. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad.
May 16, 2013 · An very well written book in which Gawande argues that surgery is an evolving and imperfect art. He begins by describing in compulsively readable detail some occasions during which it has failed its patients.
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Apr 1, 2003 · 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.
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Sep 9, 2002 · Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande. Metropolitan Books, $24, pp 288. ISBN 080 506 3196. Rating: ★★★ Complications is a collection of essays about doubt and uncertainty in medicine.
- Sanjay A Pai
- BMJ. 2002 Sep 21; 325(7365): 663.
- 2002
- 2002/09/09
This book 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. Atul Gawande offers...
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Sep 21, 2002 · Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. C omplications is a collection of essays about doubt and uncertainty in medicine. As well as being a surgeon, Atul Gawande is a staff writer on medicine and science at The New Yorker, and some of the essays in this volume have appeared before. For example, “When Doctors Make Mistakes ...
