![]() ![]() He also shows us 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. ![]() In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. 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.Ītul 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. ![]() 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. A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |