Complications: Notes from the Life of a Young Surgeon - Softcover

Gawande, Atul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143028456 ISBN 13: 9780143028451

Publisher: Penguin Books India, 2002

Synopsis

In gripping accounts of true cases, Atul Gawande performs exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is - complicated, perplexing and profoundly human.

About this title

Product Description:

Autobiography of Atul Gawande, a surgeon in United States of America; this personal narrative exposes surgery of its follies to the extent it is human as it is idealised science.

Review:

Gently dismantling the myth of medical infallibility, Dr Atul Gawande's Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science is essential reading for anyone involved in medicine--on either end of the stethoscope. Medical professionals make mistakes, learn on the job and improvise much of their technique and self-confidence. Gawande's tales are humane and passionate reminders that doctors are people, too. His prose is thoughtful and deeply engaging, shifting from sometimes-painful stories of suffering patients (including his own child) to intriguing suggestions for improving medicine with the same care he expresses in the surgical theatre. Some of his ideas will make health-care providers nervous or even angry, but his disarming style, confessional tone and thoughtful arguments should win over most readers. Complications is a book with heart and an excellent bedside manner, celebrating rather than berating doctors for being merely human. --Rob Lightner

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books India
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0143028456
• ISBN 13: 9780143028451
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 251