And in a richly detailed portrait of both the people and the science, Gawande also ponders the human factor that makes saving lives possible."-BOOK JACKET. He shows what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain for which there is no physical cause a young woman with nausea that won't go away a television newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job. Atul Gawande discussed a plenty of cases that he dealt with in his first years of training. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. Complications a surgeon’s notes on imperfect science is a scientific book that successfully published at the beginning of the 21st century, specifically in 2002. She had an uneventful surgery performed on. "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. Atul C Mehta Case Presentation A 67-year-old woman developed sudden-onset severe dyspnea 24 h after a bilateral sequential lung transplant for COPD. 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. New York : Metropolitan Books, Picador, 2002 Broken link? let us search Trove, the Wayback Machine, or Google for you.
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