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Atul Gawande
Complications
A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Profile Books, 2008
What's inside?
Physician and New Yorker writer Atul Gawande reflects on the uncertainties of surgeons.
Recommendation
Physician and New Yorker medical and science writer Atul Gawande’s bestseller offers a series of meditations on and anecdotes about the moral and practical issues surgeons face. Gawande is a perceptive writer with unusual sensitivity toward his patients. His profound sense of responsibility to the field of medicine, to his own development as a doctor and to his patients creates a strong emotional bond with his readers. Gawande’s prose has an astute rhythm. He varies between compelling anecdotes and personal reflection at a pace that holds your attention. His descriptions of how little surgical residents – doctors in their last years of training – know before they start cutting patients open might alarm you, but his calm descriptions of how he gained the knowledge to do well by his patients is fascinating. His eye-opening and often very personal narrative will touch anyone who works in health care, anyone who has to go to a doctor and everyone who wants to be one.
About the Author
Atul Gawande is a medicine and science staff writer for The New Yorker. He also wrote Being Mortal and The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right.
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