![]() ![]() When I finished this audio book, these words came to me: It is about time someone took the mysticism out of the medical community. ![]() ![]() Gawande also ponders the human factor that makes saving lives possible.Īt once tough-minded and humane, Complications is a new kind of medical writing, nuanced and lucid, unafraid to confront the conflicts and uncertainties that lie at the heart of modern medicine, yet always alive to the possibilities of wisdom in this extraordinary endeavor. He shows what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain for which there is no physical cause a young woman with nausea that won't go away a television newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur, why good surgeons go bad. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is - complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human.Ītul 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. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. ![]()
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