In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and 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. “There is something about the feeling that you are entering a world that others don’t get to see and that slightly sickening feeling of sticking a knife into somebody.” Listen online to free English audiobook "Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science” on our website to experience Atul Gawande’s novel.A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. It was a lot tougher and springier than I thought it would be, so I had to cut twice. “I picked it up and drew it across the skin. And then, the nurse handed me the knife,” he recalls with a laugh, reliving the nervous thrill that went through him. “The patient was put under, the belly exposed. The student, who had never operated before, was observing an abdominal procedure when it came time to make the first incision. Several years ago, Atul Gawande faced a crucial moment in his medical training. The book is divided into three sections: Fallibility, Mystery, and Uncertainty, all going in depth into the problems physicians may face when practicing a variety of procedures in medicine. Gawande wrote this during his general surgery residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital and was published in 2002 by Picador. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science is a nonfiction book collection of essays. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Atul Gawande is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher.
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