http://oduinn.com/blog/2009/06/20/better-a-surgeons-notes-on-performance-by-atul-gawande/ Wed, 16 May 2012 01:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://oduinn.com/blog/2009/06/20/better-a-surgeons-notes-on-performance-by-atul-gawande/#comment-39241 John O’Duinn’s Soapbox » Complications by Atul Gawande Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:06:37 +0000 http://oduinn.com/2009/06/20/better-a-surgeons-notes-on-performance-by-atul-gawande/#comment-39241 [...] This book, like his other book “Better“, is written as a series of short stories - each chapter covering a different topic with a different patient. This made the book easy to pickup, and stopping after a chapter is a great way to mull over some of the issues raised. But I find the book hard to put down, even after all these years, and all these re-reads. Atul has quite a skill, being able to describe all the nuances of a complicated field like medicine, and medical diagnosis, in a way that is readable, understandable, and totally fascinating, to someone who knows very little about medicine. [...] [...] This book, like his other book “Better“, is written as a series of short stories – each chapter covering a different topic with a different patient. This made the book easy to pickup, and stopping after a chapter is a great way to mull over some of the issues raised. But I find the book hard to put down, even after all these years, and all these re-reads. Atul has quite a skill, being able to describe all the nuances of a complicated field like medicine, and medical diagnosis, in a way that is readable, understandable, and totally fascinating, to someone who knows very little about medicine. [...]

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