Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (Hardcover)

from TheAmpersand

A brief, eloquent, and thoughtful book that describes the messy and occasionally miraculous business of surgery and traces the author's own development from greenhorn resident to accredited surgeon. Clearly written for a general audience, "Complications" makes surgery seem like a very human endea...

from gooutsideandplay

I've pretty much decided that I would read a telephone directory if this man wrote it. I didn't think there could be a, well, better book than his previous work, Better, but I think this tops it. Complications is about the imperfections in medicine -- the unexplained mysteries, the screw ups and ...

from the_awesome_opossum

Complications is a really neat look into how hospitals are run, and how doctors and surgeons get by in their careers day after day. Although my favorite parts were the unique cases that Gawande wrote about (it's like watching House, except it's nonfiction), the reader also learns about other part...

from ohernaes

A great book about the science and practice of medicine. Gawande, a surgeon, gives an insider's view of the medical profession, a profession that often appears hard-nosed, but is as beset with ambiguity, uncertainty, human judgements, customs, mistakes, and need for practice and learning as other...

from writer1985

Fantastic book by one of the New Yorker's premier writers. The stereotypical surgeon is arrogant and bombastic -- and I've met a few like that -- but Gawande writes with such insight and grace that I almost want to go into the field myself. He avoids the sentimentality common in so much of the "h...