Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Well, I'm glad I read this AFTER my major surgery, yuk yuk yuk.

V good. V early 2000s non-fiction. About the human fallibility of doctors, and how we turn a blind eye to that when we think of medicine. Everyone wants expertise, no one wants a doctor still learning the ropes.

Favorite chapter was maybe on gastric bypass surgery? Also that flesh-eating bacteria, wow. I felt unsatisfied by the chapter on “bad” doctors - aka, when doctors just... get burnt out? Tired? Overwhelmed? It felt too mushy. Maybe that was the point.

Anyway, def fun. What is Atul Gawande up to these days?????