Chris Steeden's Reviews > Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

This is an absolutely fascinating book from a US surgeon in Boston (his parents originally from India, Atul was brought up in Athens, Ohio). It's the old cliché of not being able to put it down (how work gets in the way of reading). I found that I kept reading out parts to my partner and work colleagues (do you know that most surgeons in the US will be sued at least once in their career, do you know that a lady from the US went to Sweden to have an operation to stop her blushing, do you know...). Some of these chapters have come from articles he had written for the The New Yorker magazine.

He goes over some of the cases when he was a newly trained surgeon plus looks at things like nausea, vomiting, blushing, motion sickness, pain without any physical issues, good doctors gone bad, making decisions and getting a diagnosis correct. I have bought his new book 'Being Mortal' which I am very much looking forward to reading.