![]() Heart disease and cancer are more likely to cause death, but nothing else. (See commentary about the research on NPR.) Let that sink in for a second. Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. In this yearning, we’re willing to overlook what we know to be reality. Someone else who will tell us the answers to the questions that we don’t even understand yet. We want to believe that we have it all figured out – or at least, if we don’t have it all figured out, someone else does. We’re wired by our nature to crave understanding of our world. They’re the reason I picked up Complications. ![]() I’ve reviewed two of Gawande’s more recent books The Checklist Manifesto and Being Mortal – both are good and different from each other. ![]() ![]() Atul Gawande speaks about medical complications in Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science while simultaneously exposing the inner struggle that surgeons – and, indeed, anyone who provides care to another person – must struggle with. We believe that we’ve got life all figured out, but then come the pesky complications to our orderly, perfect world. Complications impact every aspect of our life. ![]()
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