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Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science
Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science Review
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the author is a very good writer. pick up the book and skim for the anecdotal stories that form the central picture for each chapter. just enjoy them as an interesting observation about learning to be a surgeon. then read the last chapter “the case of the red leg”, then decide if you want to read the whole book.
Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance
Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance Review
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“Better” is an excellent book, clearly written and extremely well organized. Its theme is improvement in medical care and, mostly, the personality traits of the persons who have produced several improvements. The book gives intensely interesting case histories and can be read with pleasure and profit to learn about such things as a saturation program to stamp out a polio flare-up in India or about an anesthesiologist who devised a rating scale for the condition of new-born children, which resulted in a sharp decrease in their mortality. Its overarching theme, though, is moral: that fixed dedication to the task one has chosen, and commitment to its accomplishment in the best way one can, is important to improving the world we live in.
