However, the author, Atul Gawande, is not an ordinary insider. This is a meditative book on medicine written by a surgeon, who is an insider on the matter. This is the exact essence of medical exploration: surgeons have to transcend various complexities and pursue perfection. Surgeons can sometimes be at a loss and find it difficult to make decisions when the factors that need to be considered are too complex to make a choice. It vividly captures the world surgeons are in a world full of uncertainties. The title encapsulates the complexities doctors face. The title of this book, “complications”, is a pun: it both functions as the medical term “complication' and the commonly used word “complication”. Today, this book is going to show you that other side.

However, people don't have the opportunity to actually get close to them: to see their eyebrows furrow when faced with complicated medical cases, or to learn about the other side of both them and medicine. People often come to surgeons as patients who want to be healed. These impressions are certainly correct, but do not reveal the whole story. Whenever people discuss these topics, the first images that appear in their minds are angels working in white robes, clinics, medicine, machines, surgeries that fight diseases, and amazing scientific breakthroughs that could extend human life. In the minds of the general public, the terms “surgeon' and “medicine” are always associated with rationality, accuracy, and order. Today we will unlock the book ‘Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on An Imperfect Science’. Lee was living entirely off his left lung, and the tumor was pressing down on the airway to it, too.Hi, welcome to Bookey. A sea of fluid from the tumor occupied his right chest instead.

The tumor had already completely crushed the passage to his right lung, and without air coming through, the lung had col lapsed to a gray nubbin on the scan. In star k black and wh ite, i t showed th e mass t o be a dense, almost football-size tumor enveloping the vessels to his heart, pushing the heart itself to one side, and compressing the airway to both lungs. They got a CT scan for a more detailed pictu re. But then an X ray revealed an immense mass filling the middle of his chest. At a local emergency room, the doctors gave him vaporized breathing treatments, thinking he was having an asthma attack. That evening, however, he came to her pale, tremulous, and wheez ing, suddenly unable to catch his breath. For the l as t coup le da ys he'd hardly eaten. But for the previous week, his mother had noticed he had a dry, persistent cough and seemed less energetic than usual. As we can call him, was a small, spi ky-h air ed ki d barely out o f elem enta ry school.

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