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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
5.0
This National Book Award finalist REALLY makes you think! It opens your eyes to the imperfections in our system of medical care.
Gawande is a surgical resident (when he wrote it), a thinker and a poet. He uses case histories to explore the thinking, the philosophy, of medicine. He speaks of mistakes and intuition, luck and skill, good outcomes despite bad treatement, and devastating outcomes despite excellent care. This should be required reading for all medical students and regularly re-read by all MDs.
After I'd read it I couldn't stop talking about it, and convinced one of my F2F book clubs to read it in July 2005.
Gawande is a surgical resident (when he wrote it), a thinker and a poet. He uses case histories to explore the thinking, the philosophy, of medicine. He speaks of mistakes and intuition, luck and skill, good outcomes despite bad treatement, and devastating outcomes despite excellent care. This should be required reading for all medical students and regularly re-read by all MDs.
After I'd read it I couldn't stop talking about it, and convinced one of my F2F book clubs to read it in July 2005.