lucy1375 's review for:

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande

5.0

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I'm a big fan of Gawande's writing for The New Yorker, as he writes succinctly and gives you the background in medicine you need to understand what he's talking about, plus, he takes a really interesting insider's view of medicine from both a patient's and a doctor's perspective, including when mistakes happen. This book is really a more fleshed out version of many of his New Yorker articles, and I really think it makes you think about medicine slightly differently when you're done reading it.