Details
Rent Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Author:
Narrator: Griffith, William David
Format: Abridged-CD
Publisher: Audio Renaissance
Published: Apr 2003
Genre: Medical - Essays
Retail Price: $34.99
Discs: 6
Synopsis
A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine.
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. This audio 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.
Atul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science i
Reviews
Audiobooks, especially nonfiction ones, don't get much better than this. Engaging, well written, well read, accessible to any reader, educational in the GOOD way -- this isn't pedantic nonsense, and left me very much looking-forward to Dr. Gawande's second next book.