These anecdotes serve the purpose of shedding light on the fallibility of doctors and the imperfect nature of medicine. In these two essays, Gawande discusses his own struggles inserting a central venous catheter and performing an emergency tracheotomy that nearly results in the death of the patient. In many of the essays included in the book, in particular When Doctors Make Mistakes and Education of a Knife, demonstrate many of the mistakes physicians may make when treating their patients.
In the writing of Complications, Gawande attempts to elucidate medicine. The Dead Baby Mystery was also published prior to the release of Complications on Slate magazine. Before the publication of Complications, Gawande published some of the essays on The New Yorker, including The Pain Perplex, When Doctors Make Mistakes, A Queasy Feeling, Whose Body Is It, Anyway?, When Good Doctors Go Bad, Crimson Tide, Final Cut, and The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Eating. Although the amount of time Gawande would spend working made it more difficult to complete his writing projects, this large workload allowed him to be exposed to more experiences. Working approximately 110 hours a week, Gawande would have to leave his writing of his essays for the nighttime and the weekends. Background Ītul Gawande wrote the Complications during his surgical residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Each of these sections puts forth different challenges doctors must face that make them imperfect and errant, resulting in the inevitable occurrence of errors. The book is divided into three sections: Fallibility, Mystery, and Uncertainty, all going in depth into the problems physicians may face when practicing a variety of procedures in medicine. Gawande wrote this during his general surgery residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital and was published in 2002 by Picador.
Nonfiction collection of essays by American surgeon Atul Gawande Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect ScienceĬomplications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science is a nonfiction book collection of essays written by the American surgeon Atul Gawande.
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