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Not quite a 4 star read, but close enough. It's fairly short & does make his major points fairly well. They boil down to medicine isn't perfect.
Doctors are humans, so need to learn & will make mistakes, even with the best intentions. Do I want a doctor to learn on me or mine? Hell no! Gawande admits that he doesn't either & he makes sure they don't, BUT we won't get any new ones if they don't start somewhere. So what's the solution? There isn't a good one. Deal with it.
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Doctors are humans, so need to learn & will make mistakes, even with the best intentions. Do I want a doctor to learn on me or mine? Hell no! Gawande admits that he doesn't either & he makes sure they don't, BUT we won't get any new ones if they don't start somewhere. So what's the solution? There isn't a good one. Deal with it.
Patients are humans, so th ...more
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Atul Gawande's Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End is beautiful and thought provoking. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science is also interesting but not as focused. Gawande is a surgeon and he writes clearly and with feeling about his profession. He has the right balance of real life experiences and philosophizing. In this books he looks at surgical training, decision making, bariatic surgery, what happens when good doctors go bad, guiding patient decisions, and
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Really, really interesting. Not just horror stories about surgery gone wrong, as the title may suggest. Full of interesting cases and musings about medicine in general and the nation's health care system. Malcolm Gladwell-esque with a medical bent.
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Decent airplane book which neither glosses over nor goes too deeply into the balancing acts of the practice of medicine.
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