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At 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 endeavorĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 23:31:11 Boxid IA151401 Boxid_2 CH107701 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st Picador ed. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

253-264) and indexįallibility: Education of a knife - Computer and the hernia factory - When doctors make mistakes - Nine thousand surgeons - When good doctors go bad - Mystery: Full moon Friday the thirteenth - Pain perplex - Queasy feeling - Crimson tide - Man who couldn't stop eating - Uncertainty: Final cut - Dead baby mystery - Whose body is it anyway? - Case of the red legĪ brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. 'Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate'-T.p.

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