![]() ![]() He writes, with nail-biting fluidity, about a potentially catastrophic mistake he himself made as a young surgical resident (he masks some details, presumably to protect himself from liability). Professional humility is the starting point for many of Gawande's examples. ![]() He's also published a number of times in the New Yorker (try here and here), as well as the New England Journal of Medicine, where he published an influential article about casualty rates in the ongoing Iraq war. In 2003, Gawande was invited to do the commencement address at the Yale School of Medicine, which is a pretty remarkable honor for a young doctor. It's fitting that Malcolm Gladwell has a blurb on the back of the book, since Gladwell's detail-oriented, problem-solving method closely resesmbles Gawande's in many ways.Ĭomplications has been a success - it was a National Book Award Finalist. Gawande's overarching interest is in what can be done to improve and reform the practice of medicine from within. It's built on extensive research and interviews as well as Gawande's own experience as a surgeon at Harvard. While I thought I already had a favorite Indian doctor-writer in Abraham Verghese, Gawande gives him a run for his money here.Ĭomplications is essentially a warts-and-all portrait of the field of medicine in the U.S. I recently picked up Atul Gawande's Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science in a bookstore in Philly. ![]()
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