At one point in my career (in fact, not too long after this book was originally published), I worked in the risk management department for a non-teaching hospital. We looked at physician errors and complication rates, among other things. A few years previously, I had worked in the department that ...
Listened to this while on a long-haul drive, and was mesmerized. Had to turn off the recording at the end of chapters to think about things: How should surgeons gain their skills, who should decide what care I should get, whether that scratch on my foot is infected with flesh-eating bacteria. Very c...
This was a very well written book with some interesting, surprising and shocking insights into the medical industry. One thing Gawande makes very clear throughout the book: doctors are human and thus as fatally flawed as the rest of us! His use of real cases is underpinned by something more striki...
Recently I had to see a doctor for something that was bothering me. I went to my normal family physicians group, who referred me to a gastroenterologist, and eventually had to have a couple procedures in the hospital before I was offhandedly diagnosed with IBS. I say "offhandedly" because that's wha...
"Re-read" as an abridged audiobook.I like Gawande and I liked this book when I read it a few years ago. The audiobook, which is abridged, was less enjoyable for me. Not having the physical book in front of me when I listened, I can't say where the abridgments took place, but I did notice that at a n...
I read several of these pieces when the originally appeared in The New Yorker. Gswande is a great writer, and someone who is always trying to understand a little bit more.
From my blog at http://onebookoneweekoneyear.blogspot.com/It can be a bit disconcerting to learn that surgeons in rural India are more skilled than surgeons in the United States. But such is the result when Indian doctors are forced to address a range of problems a U.S. doctor would send off to anot...
As a physician myself I found this a fascinating read. The anecdotes are dead on and the philosophical explainations behind his reasonings make one think. Medicine is an imperfect science. I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in medicine or an interest in trying to understand ho...
In his second collection, Gawande ranges further afield than he did in Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. There, many of the essays dealt with surgical training and socialization. Here, while still grounded in hospital practices (such as handwashing, or the lack of it), Gawand...
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