In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. Atul 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. 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. 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. 253-264) and indexįallibility: Education of a knife - Computer and the hernia factory - When doctors make mistakes - Nine thousand surgeons - When good doctors go bad - Mystery: Full moon Friday the thirteenth - Pain perplex - Queasy feeling - Crimson tide - Man who couldn't stop eating - Uncertainty: Final cut - Dead baby mystery - Whose body is it anyway? - Case of the red legĪ brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. "Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"-T.p.
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