Complications Atul Gawande Analysis

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The world of medicine is a difficult field, in which doctors encounter troublesomes situations that they must overcome in order to save a patient’s life. In his three part nonfiction novel, Complications, Atul Gawande, argues that medicine is an imperfect science and doctors experience fallibility, mystery and uncertainty throughout their careers. Gawande utilizes personal stories to help the audience comprehend the struggles doctors encounter. Overall, I was convinced by Gawande’s thesis, that medicine is imperfect, because of two of his real life anecdotes, including the case of red leg and a doctor, who became accustomed to making mistakes. In order to prove his thesis, Gawande uses a patient case, where the young woman is infected with

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