![]() From a patient who could not stop blushing to another who could not stop eating, Gawande reveals how modern medicine has evolved surgical solutions to these seemingly intractable conundrums. ![]() Gawande brings us on a journey of exploration and discovery, through his first few weeks of surgical training, when putting in a central line seemed a monumental achievement, before entering the chaotic world of a fully-trained surgeon-seeing patients presenting diverse symptoms and histories that awaken both curiosity and awe. ![]() Full of fallibility, mystery and uncertainty, it reveals the highs and lows of navigating a field that often relies on tenuous and circumstantial evidence. With a storyteller’s literary panache, Atul Gawande brings us a realistic and gripping account of surgery. ![]()
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