Complications - Atul Gawande

I would read anything Atul Gawande writes. He's a great writer with great subject matter - being a surgical resident at a Boston hospital. Look for his regular contributions to The New Yorker, where these essays first appeared. Particularly interesting are his essays on learning medicine and on uncertainty in medicine - in both cases these are ethically loaded problems, because in medicine you practice on real people.

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imprecise Science
Atul Gawande
2002
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