Complications : A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science

Complications : A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande

This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people’s bodies and the terrifying – literally life and death – of doctors who go to the bad decisions that have to be made.There are accounts of operations that go wrong why autopsies are necessary what it feels like to insert your knife into someone.