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through anecdotes and examples of patient cases, gawande seems to be honestly writing about fallibility - in medicine, in doctors, in patients. i don't know, so much, that the science is imperfect, but people are imperfect. i like that gawande is putting this information out for public consumption. his writing is fairly simple and accessible. as with Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, he touches on subjects that people either avoid discussing altogether, or are extremely uncomfo
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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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The quality of the essays was somewhat uneven, but overall I found the writing compelling and am quite interested in the questions presented by the author: how do doctors and medical science intersect and interact with the messy real world of uncertainty and error? What could be done to reduce errors in medicine? What's the best way to reconcile our desire for the best care with our need to train new doctors?
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