Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (Repost)
Atul Gawande "Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science"
Picador | English | April 1, 2003 | ISBN: 0312421702 | 269 pages | azw, epub, lrf, mobi | 3,3 mb
Picador | English | April 1, 2003 | ISBN: 0312421702 | 269 pages | azw, epub, lrf, mobi | 3,3 mb
I read this book while convalescing from surgery,therefore with recent 'experience" from both sides of the blade. I was amazed at the impressive insight and expressiveness of this surgical resident who only starting his medical career. His descriptions of various controversial medical themes and dilemmas evoked many of my own experiences,emotions and my own impressions of how it is that we solve our daily medical mysteries that rarely conform to the textbooks. I've recommended this book to my son who is contemplating a career in medicine, I think he'll understand better what he might be getting himself into. I am anxious to follow any subsequent writings of this writer to see what I think will be an interesting evolution as he becomes first an attending physician and then deals with many more challenging experiences that will leave him even more perplexed,doubting,dispirited,uncertain but at the same time elated by his many clinical triumphs.