Atul Gawande’s Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science is a collection of essays that weaves narratives from Gawande’s personal experience as a surgical resident together with research, philosophy, and case studies in medicine. Complications is a book for everyone and anyone; in theory we know many of the points Gawande raises - but in reality we don't know what it means to be a surgeon or medical practitioner. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Gently dismantling the myth of medical infallibility, Dr. Atul Gawande's. Gawande the committed doctor is very much Gawande the committed human being.

He looks at whether computers can read electrocardiograms more reliably than cardiologists and whether a team of nonsurgeons who perform only hernia operations, day in and day out, will do better by their patients than highly trained general surgeons. Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes On An Imperfect Science. It's just not possible. His point here is, all doctors make mistakes and it is a big part of being a doctor. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. 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. Published in 2002, Complications became a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction. Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2017. The book is divided into three sections: Fallibility, Mystery, and Uncertainty, all going in depth into the problems physicians may face when practicing a variety of procedures in medicine. I first read it near about when it came out, around 2002, and just got around to re-reading it. ... Summary. This is not just a young resident registering fear and mistrust in the eyes of the patient.

Part 2. And so the discussion extends from his own experience in learning how to put in a central line to the question of why and how repetition -- practice and more practice -- brings expertise and smoothness, and then beyond to the moral dilemma of teaching medicine to new learners: "This is the uncomfortable truth about teaching.

Gawande, a Rhodes Scholar and MacArthur Fellow, is a surgeon at … But it is Gawande's willingness to expose his own failures that proves essential; it not only shows good faith but puts the reader in the box seat. The first edition of the novel was published in 2002, and was written by Atul Gawande. Well written. What draws practitioners to this challenging profession, he concludes, is the promise of "the alterable moment the fragile but crystalline opportunity for one's know-how, ability or just gut instinct to change the course of another's life for the better." Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon.