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These essays by a writer, scholar, and surgeon on the mysteries and mishaps of modern surgery eloquently uncover the fallibilities in medicine. The author, all the while maintaining a sense of heart for doctors, discusses how the art of "doctoring" is acquired, and how many doctors extemporize self-confidence and even techniques. He intersperses stories of medical patients, including his own child, to illustrate his points on the force and limits of medicine, and makes interesting, thoughtful suggestions on how medicine could be improved. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
| Size | | Length: | 269 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 16.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"If Gawande's hands in the operating room are as sure as his handling of words, his success in his chosen career is all but guaranteed."
Kirkus Reviews (02/01/2002)
"Gawande...has taken the art of physician narrative to a new level. He is a deft writer, telling compelling stories that weave together medical events, his personal feelings and answers to questions that readers are surely pondering. Most important, Gawande paints with a decidedly gray brush. There are few heroes or villains in COMPLICATIONS, just folks doing their jobs. Although some readers, perhaps those who have felt victimized by the medical system, may find Gawande's explanations too exculpatory of doctors, he has documented well the uncertainties and ambiguities that characterize medical practice."
Nation - Barron H. Lerner (05/06/2002)
"The reader feels that he is accompanying Dr. Gawande at the bedside or operating table and senses that the events are being described and confronted as they should be if we are to get an honest sense of the complexities of twenty-first century healing."
New York Review of Books - Sherwin B. Nuland (07/18/2002)
"Gawande is arguably the best nonfiction doctor-writer around; his talents are a source of envy among the rest of us, and this collection showcases his work well. He's prescient and thoughtful, in awe of the medicine he practices without being an unthinking cheerleader. He is able to enter a story, but never overstates his own role as some doctor-writers are wont to do….Gawande's greatest contribution, however, is that he has no fear of fighting the myth of the infallibility of doctors."
Salon - Ivan Oransky M.D. (04/09/2002)
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