5/31/2023 0 Comments Complications atul gawande reviewThe stories in a sense all exemplify this idea. Medicine is an imperfect science, diagnosis and offering medication are ways of investigating what’s wrong with someone (p. They didn’t know how gravity would affect what they were doing (p. The doctors were frightened, meant to help a young man shot through the buttocks, cut him open, what damage was done was done by them they couldn’t explain how it happened. We see him aboard ship showing how hard it is to cope with knowing this abstract placement. John Harrison’s invention of watch that could tell what longitude a shiop is at. Are there other applied uses of science where what happens is very often unpredictable? We have had one this term: the NASA shuttle. I begin with Gawande’s Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science, his introduction, a summary and exemplification of his book’s major arguments: Medicine is a strange and disturbing business: it is messy, uncertain and surprizing. Another blog where I’m turning my lecture notes into a blog for my students and in the hope other readers involved in some aspect of medicine (and which of us is not?) will find them of interest.
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