Complications

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Author: Atul Gawande
Narrator: William David Griffith
Genres: Biographies, Health, Body & Mind, Science & Technology, Health and Medicine
Publisher: Audio Renaissance
Date: April 2003
Length: 7 hours, 30 minutes
Ratings:
  • Book Rating: 3.5/5
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  • CD

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In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel’s edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is—uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.

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Complications

by Anonymous
  • Book Rating: 4/5

Thoughtful and moving

by Ronald Hayden
  • Book Rating: 4/5

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Complications

Written by Anonymous on November 26th, 2007

  • Book Rating: 4/5

Stories related to disease, patients and the practice of medicine. This book is good but not at the very top of books in this category.

Thoughtful and moving

Written by Ronald Hayden from San Francisco, CA on November 12th, 2004

  • Book Rating: 4/5

Through stories of patients he has encountered, Atul Gawande not only provides a satisfying roller-coaster ride in which you really want to know how the patient will turn out, but he explores deeper questions of what it means to be a doctor and a patient. After listening to this, you will feel like you were the uncertain doctor guessing at what to do next. You'll realize what an uncertain world it is for the patient, and you'll know some of the things going on behind the scenes. Particularly interesting are the questions of how to address inevitable errors among doctors and the question of who should decide in the end, doctor or patient? Atul Gawande is a wonderful, thoughful writer and the narration reflects this perfectly.

Bare bones medicine

Written by Anonymous on November 2nd, 2004

  • Book Rating: 4/5

An insiders view of the very worst in medicine, an account of how things really work. It also shows that doctors are humans too.

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Complications

by Anonymous
  • Book Rating: 4/5

Thoughtful and moving

by Ronald Hayden
  • Book Rating: 4/5

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