Complications - A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Atul Gawande

Picador

2003

288 páginas

9h 36m

ISBN-10: 0312421702

Gently dismantling the myth of medical infallibility, Dr. Atul Gawande's Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science is essential reading for anyone involved in medicine--on either end of the stethoscope. Medical professionals make mistakes, learn on the job, and improvise much of their technique and self-confidence. Gawande's tales are humane and passionate reminders that doctors are people, too. His prose is thoughtful and deeply engaging, shifting from sometimes painful stories of suffering patients (including his own child) to intriguing suggestions for improving medicine with the same care he expresses in the surgical theater. Some of his ideas will make health care providers nervous or even angry, but his disarming style, confessional tone, and thoughtful arguments should win over most readers. Complications is a book with heart and an excellent bedside manner, celebrating rather than berating doctors for being merely human.

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Gawande discorre sobre os limites e inovações da medicina ao mesmo tempo que nos faz pensar na natureza humana da mesma, no cuidado com o paciente, na falibilidade humana e o que nos faz decidir por um ou outro caminho. Excelente leitura e acredito que é muito interessante na vida de qualquer profissional de saúde.