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Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 18 years ago
One of my favorite series for the high quality of the writing. Gawande appears in the New Yorker regularly.
Readz
Readz rated it 18 years ago
"Medicine is, I have found, a strange and in many ways disturbing business."
debnance
debnance rated it 18 years ago
I was fascinated from the beginning with this book of essays about health and medicine. The first essay talked about the importance of doctors washing their hands. Gosh, we all know that, right? We know how absolutely essential it is. Well, get this: doctors don’t do it. And when they do do it, the...
willemite
willemite rated it 56 years ago
(Added a link - 4/18/15 - at bottom) In the past few decades, medical science has rendered obsolete centuries of experience, tradition, and language about our mortality and created a new difficulty for mankind: how to die.Being Mortal is completely irrelevant for any readers who do not have elderly ...
Nola
Nola rated it 56 years ago
Complications is a book that goes into uncomfortable questions how doctors deal with fallibility, mystery, and uncertainty, which are the section headings for this book. Doctors have to begin practicing and they have to get experience, but no one wants a new doctor to practice on them or their famil...
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