![]() ![]() The writing style is crisp, concise, and skillful. And just as physicians do not always make wise decisions, patients in kind often fail to act in their own best interests. While hoofbeats usually mean horses, occasionally a zebra will appear. Patients do not always comply with their physician's advice. A technically perfect operation does not always produce a good outcome. Moreover, patients are human, and thus imperfect, too. Physicians are not without failures, which include personal, professional, and technical shortcomings, and individual chapters address each of these sensitive issues. The central tenet of the book is that medicine is an imperfect profession. In fact, even my 17-yr-old, thinks-he-wants-to-be-a-doctor, son is engrossed in the book. ![]() ![]() This book is for all readers, medical and nonmedical, young and old alike. ![]() The author, Atul Gawande, M.D., presents a refreshingly humanistic approach to both surgery and to the care of patients in general. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science is a collection of stories based on the experiences of a surgical resident at a major teaching hospital in Boston. ![]()
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