Gawande draws you in with the story but leaves you wiser about science, about health care issues, and even about the human condition. “ The stories in Complications are gripping medical mysteries that always have something extra. “Atul Gawande is a rare and wonderful storyteller who portrays his profession with bravery and humanity.” - Ellen Goodman, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist “Wrenching human tales.Gawande has pushed the medical yarn in a new direction.” - The Boston Globe “Gawande's prose, much like the scalpel he wields, is precise, daring, but never reckless.Much like reading George Orwell, the reader emerges entertained, enlightened, transformed and immensely satisfied.” - Abraham Verghese, author of My Own Country He turns every case-from gunshot wounds to morbid obesity to flesh-eating bacteria-into a thriller in miniature. “Gawande is a writer with a scalpel pen and an X-ray eye. Every subject Atul Gawande touches is probed and dissected and turned inside out with such deftness and feeling and counterintuitive insight that the reader is left breathless.” - Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point “Complications is a book about medicine that reads like a thriller. “Gawande is arguably the best nonfiction doctor-writer around.He's prescient and thoughtful.the heir to Lewis Thomas' humble, insightful and brilliantly crafted oeuvre.”. Bone study sheds light on complications after spinal surgery. His stories about becoming a surgeon are scary, funny, absorbing.Complications is a uniquely soulful book about the science of mending bodies.” - Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the Moon These kinds of bone density issues are common among spinal surgery patients who are 50 and older. “No one writes about medicine as a human subject as well as Atul Gawande. Complications impresses for its truth and authenticity, virtues that it owes to its author being as much forceful writer as uncompromising chronicler.” - The New York Times Book Review “None surpass Gawande in the ability to create a sense of immediacy, in his power to conjure the reality of the ward, the thrill of the moment-by-moment medical or surgical drama.

Complications a surgeon's notes