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4.5 stars
I had a great time reading this with Heidi from My Reading Life. The book is broken up into three sections named for ideas that vex doctors - Fallibility, Mystery, and Uncertainty. He looks at the way surgeons are educated, advancements in medicine, hard to pin down diagnoses, and more with a liberal sprinkling of fascinating cases.
The pacing is perfect, there are edge of your seat moments to see if a patient makes it, and he brings up ethical issues that appear in his later books, such ...more
I had a great time reading this with Heidi from My Reading Life. The book is broken up into three sections named for ideas that vex doctors - Fallibility, Mystery, and Uncertainty. He looks at the way surgeons are educated, advancements in medicine, hard to pin down diagnoses, and more with a liberal sprinkling of fascinating cases.
The pacing is perfect, there are edge of your seat moments to see if a patient makes it, and he brings up ethical issues that appear in his later books, such ...more
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