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Complications: Notes from the Life of a Young Surgeon by Atul Gawande
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informative
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
This was very eye-opening for me. The last chapter was buckwild.
Medicine is often viewed as calculated, unemotional. You look at a certain set of symptoms which tell you a diagnoses which tells you the treatment. Gawande paints an entirely different picture. I really appreciate someone in the medicine field freely discussing the ethical questions and unknowns that come with the job. I know this book will be one that I think back on a lot.
Medicine is often viewed as calculated, unemotional. You look at a certain set of symptoms which tell you a diagnoses which tells you the treatment. Gawande paints an entirely different picture. I really appreciate someone in the medicine field freely discussing the ethical questions and unknowns that come with the job. I know this book will be one that I think back on a lot.
Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail