![]() Buy “Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande” The book is also about split second decisions that could mean life or death and the limits – often unsuspected by the patient – of both doctors and medical science. ![]() Atul Gawande’s account of a trainee surgeon’s career has been a bestseller in the USĬomplications is the unsparing detail about what happens in the operating theatre. It documents messy tracheotomies, a stomach-stapling operation on an obese man and a surgical procedure to help a woman who cannot stop blushing. ![]() It begins with a bullet wound in a young man’s buttock and ends with a woman whose leg is almost destroyed by Necrotizing fascitis. He also throws light on patients expectations and behavioural aspects in case of surgical complications. ![]() It is also equally valuable to qualified practitioners and medical professionals.Īlso laid out clearly and concisely, are well-established potholes and pitfalls in current medical and thinking and practice. This book forms an important and formative reading a medical student must do outside the prescribed requirements for a degree. ![]()
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