Some of his ideas will make health care providers nervous or even angry, but his disarming style, confessional tone, and thoughtful arguments should win over most readers.Ĭomplications is a book with heart and an excellent bedside manner, celebrating rather than berating doctors for being merely human. His prose is thoughtful and deeply engaging, shifting from sometimes painful stories of suffering patients (including his own child) to intriguing suggestions for improving medicine with the same care he expresses in the surgical theatre. Gawande's tales are humane and passionate reminders that doctors are people, too. Medical professionals make mistakes, learn on the job, and improvise much of their technique and self-confidence. Atul Gawande's Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science is essential reading for anyone involved in medicine - on either end of the stethoscope. Gently dismantling the myth of medical infallibility, Dr. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is - uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human. Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. In Part I How We Learn, Gawande discusses. In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Dr. In Complications, Gawande lays out several ways in which medicine is imperfect and will continue to be imperfect. Title: COMPLICATIONS : A SURGEONS NOTES ON AN IMPERFECT SCIENCE
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