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This 2002 collection of 14 essays by the surgeon and New Yorker writer slice the practice of medicine open to reveal it as it really is: not the practice of carefully calibrated textbook procedures, but an uncertain world of frightened patients, burnt-out doctors, baffling symptomatology and crises of confidence during life-and-death decision-making. Gawande expands on these insights in Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance (2007).
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