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The book Complications, by Atul Gawande is a fantastic account of medicine as an imperfect science that I would recommend to anyone interested in the field. Th
by Daniel_Marcos 10y ago
The book Complications, by Atul Gawande is a fantastic account of medicine as an imperfect science that I would recommend to anyone interested in the field.
Things like this make me hopeful about perfecting medicine and surgery to avoid common human mistakes--even if that is still decades away.
- signa11 10y agoin an almost the same vein, i would heartily recommend 'the medical detectives' for bizarre accounts of medical mysteries and once 'debugged' almost 'obviously that's how it would have happened' explanations of those incidents...very cool :)