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Complications
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A new unabridged recording.
A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine.
Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This audio is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form, but as it actually is - complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human.
Atul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. He also shows us what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain for which there is no physical cause; a young woman with nausea that won't go away; a television newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job. Gawande offers a richly detailed portrait of the people and the science, even as he tackles the paradoxes and imperfections inherent in caring for human lives.
At once tough-minded and humane, Complications is a new kind of medical writing, nuanced and lucid, unafraid to confront the conflicts and uncertainties that lie at the heart of modern medicine, yet always alive to the possibilities of wisdom in this extraordinary endeavor.
Complications was a 2002 National Book Award finalist for nonfiction.
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company
Reseñas de la Crítica
“None surpass Gawande in the ability to create a sense of immediacy, in his power to conjure the reality of the ward, the thrill of the moment-by-moment medical and surgical drama. Complications impresses for its truth and authenticity, virtues that it owes to its author being as much forceful writer as uncompromising chronicler.” (The New York Times Book Review)
“No one writes about medicine as a human subject as well as Atul Gawande. His stories about becoming a surgeon are scary, funny, absorbing.... Complications is a uniquely soulful book about the science of mending bodies.” (Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the Moon)
“Gawande is arguably the best nonfiction doctor-writer around.... He's prescient and thoughtful...the heir to Lewis Thomas' humble, insightful and brilliantly crafted oeuvre." (Salon.com)
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While cells are commonly considered the building block of living things, it is actually the communication between cells that brings us to life, controlling our bodies and brains, determining whether we are healthy or sick, and directly influencing how we think, feel, and behave. In The Secret Language of Cells, doctor and neuroscientist Jon Lieff lets us listen in on these conversations, and reveals their significance for everything from mental health to cancer.
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- De Amazon Customer en 10-11-20
De: Jon Lieff MD
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Better
- A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
- De: Atul Gawande
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
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The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision. In this book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable.
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A MUST read . . .
- De Kathy in CA en 08-11-14
De: Atul Gawande
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Complications
- A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
- De: Atul Gawande
- Narrado por: William David Griffith
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is - complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human.
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It's about time...
- De T.K. en 05-31-03
De: Atul Gawande
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A Most Beautiful Thing
- The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team
- De: Arshay Cooper
- Narrado por: Adam Lazarre-White
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first all-Black high school rowing team in the nation, and in doing so not only transform a sport, but their lives.
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- De Hermanator33 en 07-14-20
De: Arshay Cooper
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Everything in Its Place
- First Loves and Last Tales
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests - from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's.
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Missing Sacks
- De Brandy en 12-02-19
De: Oliver Sacks
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A Rip in Heaven
- De: Jeanine Cummins
- Narrado por: Jeanine Cummins
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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The acclaimed author of American Dirt reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true-crime work - the first ever to look intimately at the experiences of both the victims and their families. A Rip in Heaven is Jeanine Cummins’ story of a night in April, 1991, when her two cousins Julie and Robin Kerry, and her brother, Tom, were assaulted on the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, which spans the Mississippi River just outside of St. Louis.
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ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING!
- De Mary Burnight en 09-16-20
De: Jeanine Cummins
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The Secret Language of Cells
- What Biological Conversations Tell Us About the Brain-Body Connection, the Future of Medicine, and Life Itself
- De: Jon Lieff MD
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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While cells are commonly considered the building block of living things, it is actually the communication between cells that brings us to life, controlling our bodies and brains, determining whether we are healthy or sick, and directly influencing how we think, feel, and behave. In The Secret Language of Cells, doctor and neuroscientist Jon Lieff lets us listen in on these conversations, and reveals their significance for everything from mental health to cancer.
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top notch!
- De Amazon Customer en 10-11-20
De: Jon Lieff MD
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The Lost River
- De: Michel Danino
- Narrado por: Vishal Menon
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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The Indian subcontinent was the scene of dramatic upheavals a few thousand years ago. The Northwest region entered an arid phase, and erosion coupled with tectonic events played havoc with river courses. One of them disappeared. Celebrated as Sarasvati in the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, this river was rediscovered in the early 19th century through topographic explorations by British officials. Recently, geological and climatological studies have probed its evolution and disappearance, while satellite imagery has traced the river's buried courses....
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Superb introductory history "Indus Civilization"
- De DesiBOOKworm en 08-11-20
De: Michel Danino
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Blood Farm
- The Explosive Big Pharma Scandal That Altered the AIDS Crisis
- De: Cara McGoogan
- Narrado por: Cara McGoogan
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
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By the mid 1980s, AIDS hysteria was so rampant that a fearful and prejudiced public ignored stories of gay men falling ill with lesions and mouth ulcers. President Reagan avoided mentioning the disease entirely. Then, as chronicled in Blood Farm, a new HIV-positive population emerged, one that included kids like Ken Dixon, Brad Cross, and Ryan White who had been infected as young as ten years old. But how?
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Judgmental author
- De Labs4life en 07-19-24
De: Cara McGoogan
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From One Cell
- A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine
- De: Ben Stanger
- Narrado por: Noah James Butler
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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Each of us began life as a single cell. From this humble origin, we embarked on a risky journey fraught with opportunities for disaster. Yet, amazingly, we reached our destination intact, emerging as dazzlingly complex, exquisitely engineered assemblages of trillions of cells. This metamorphosis constitutes one of nature's most spectacular yet commonplace magic tricks—and one of its most coveted secrets. In From One Cell, physician and researcher Ben Stanger offers a glimpse into what scientists are discovering about how life and the body take shape.
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- De Amazon Customer en 01-22-24
De: Ben Stanger
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The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly
- A Physician's First Year
- De: Matt McCarthy
- Narrado por: Matt McCarthy
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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In medical school, Matt McCarthy dreamed of being a different kind of doctor - the sort of mythical, unflappable physician who could reach unreachable patients. But when a new admission to the critical care unit almost died his first night on call, he found himself scrambling. Visions of mastery quickly gave way to hopes of simply surviving hospital life, where confidence was hard to come by and no amount of med school training could dispel the terror of facing actual patients.
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"my neurotic inner monologue"
- De Mom/RN en 06-08-15
De: Matt McCarthy
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The Spider
- Inside the Criminal Web of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell
- De: Barry Levine
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff, Barry Levine
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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Who was Jeffrey Epstein? A Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist unearths never-before-reported details in the most comprehensive account yet of the disgraced financier’s life, death, and criminal web, including the role of Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Author is Obsessed with Trump
- De Brandon Castel en 12-22-20
De: Barry Levine
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Being Mortal
- Medicine and What Matters in the End
- De: Atul Gawande
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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In Being Mortal, best-selling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit.
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A Walk through the Valley of the Shadow
- De George en 11-02-14
De: Atul Gawande
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The Long Reckoning
- A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam
- De: George Black
- Narrado por: Elyse Dinh
- Duración: 17 h y 35 m
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The American war in Vietnam has left many long-lasting scars that have not yet been sufficiently examined. The worst of them were inflicted in a tiny area bounded by the demilitarized zone between North and South and the Ho Chi Minh Trail in neighboring Laos. That small region saw the most intense aerial bombing campaign in history, the massive use of toxic chemicals, and the heaviest casualties on both sides.
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same thing over and over
- De C. Brieant en 12-02-23
De: George Black
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This Is Chance!
- The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together
- De: Jon Mooallem
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
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In the spring of 1964, Anchorage, Alaska, was a modern-day frontier town yearning to be a metropolis - the largest, proudest city in a state that was still brand-new. But just before sundown on Good Friday, the community was jolted by the most powerful earthquake in American history, a catastrophic 9.2 on the Richter Scale. This Is Chance! is the thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster - and the extraordinary woman who helped pull it back together.
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amazing story
- De Dani L en 02-07-21
De: Jon Mooallem
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Overstated
- A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States
- De: Colin Quinn
- Narrado por: Colin Quinn
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The United States is in a 50-states-wide couples’ counseling session, thinking about filing for divorce. But is that really what we want? Can a nation composed of states that are so different possibly hang together? Colin Quinn, comedian, social commentator, and writer and star of Red State Blue State and Unconstitutional, calls us out state-by-state, from Connecticut to Hawaii. He identifies the hypocrisies inherent in what we claim to believe and what we actually do.
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Some authors shouldn't read their own book
- De D. Goss en 04-01-21
De: Colin Quinn
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The Checklist Manifesto
- How to Get Things Right
- De: Atul Gawande
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies - neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist.
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Riveting!
- De Tad Davis en 01-11-10
De: Atul Gawande
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Virology
- Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
- De: Joseph Osmundson
- Narrado por: Joseph Osmundson
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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Invisible in the food we eat, the people we kiss, and inside our own bodies, viruses flourish - with the power to shape not only our health, but our social, political, and economic systems. Drawing on his expertise in microbiology, Joseph Osmundson brings listeners under the microscope to understand the structure and mechanics of viruses and to examine how viruses like HIV and COVID-19 have redefined daily life. Virology is a critical warning, a necessary reflection, and a call for a better future.
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Audience confusion
- De Tom en 07-31-22
De: Joseph Osmundson
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The Museum of Whales You Will Never See
- And Other Excursions to Iceland's Most Unusual Museums
- De: A. Kendra Greene
- Narrado por: A. Kendra Greene
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Iceland is home to only 330,000 people but more than 265 museums and public collections, ranging from the intensely physical, like the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which collects the penises of every mammal known to exist in Iceland, to the vaporously metaphysical, like the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft, which poses a particularly Icelandic problem: how to display what can't be seen?
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Beautiful Performance
- De Natalie Bossler en 06-08-20
De: A. Kendra Greene
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- Suzanne
- 09-30-20
Love Dr. Gawande
The book is essential Gawande. I love all his books. My issue is with the narration. The mispronunciations of medical was terrible. It makes it difficult to listen.
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- Art
- 02-03-22
Excellent physician and author
Everything rings true in this book. All physicians could learn from reading it. I’m saying this as a physician. Only problem is the occasional mispronunciation of medical words by the reader, more amusing than bothersome.
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- Suburban Homesteader
- 04-30-22
interesting listen
I enjoyed this book. I've listened to other books by this author and think he's just fantastic. my only quibble with this book, and it is small, is that sometimes the story seems to be included just because it's interesting. I think the title complications fits the stories, but not all of the stories flow well from one to another.
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- Alan Keith
- 11-26-22
A good casual read, while also being intellectually stimulating.
Gawande has a great writing style, and a way of breaking down complex cases into common parlance that make this book intellectually stimulating, without being overwhelmed by the complexity of the sheer ocean of knowledge he has to share. “Complications” explores some of his most interesting and unusual cases he has seen as a general surgeon, and lightly explores some shortcomings of the US medical situation - both for patients and doctors. Everything was presented in a way that piqued my curiosity and kept me wanting to read the next chapter.
The audio performance was fine, but there were a good many mispronunciations, and a few audio artifacts. Otherwise the voice reading was clear, and the speed consistent.
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- Garnete
- 02-06-22
Extremely insightful into surgeon challenges
Honest, transparent and insightful. Is extremely interesting understanding the challenges surgeons face, the limits of current science and the outstanding achievements surgery achieve. Awesome
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- Mwihaki Waithiru
- 03-20-24
Helps you appreciate doctors
Doctors are people too! That was the big lesson from this book.
They make mistakes just like everyone else does. The good ones (not quacks or those with inflated egos) carry a lot of guilt when things go wrong. Yet we forget all this when a medical procedure is botched or when we lose a loved one at the operating table.
Thanks for this book Dr Gawande. I'll listen to it again in future!
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- robert
- 07-27-24
Good stories too short.
Interesting, could be longer. It feels like you just get into the book and it wraps up. The author is good, the stories are good, narrator is good. I feel he should have drawn on a few more doctors to fill out this book. But all around a very entertaining book.
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- Rob
- 09-08-21
Read this!
Putting stories to patient care and complications and then pulling in the data - and the art in treating them - is an excellent way to make the take home information stick. I love it! Thank you for sharing this work.
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- Judy
- 02-07-22
Good Read/Listen
Dr. Gawande takes us inside the Emergency Room, the Operating Room, and occasionally, inside his head for a closeup look at the intricacies and uncertainties of modern medicine. He is frank about his stumbles and modest about his insight in making the right call in murky cases. Probably the best book of its genre that I have read to date.
Petkoff's narration is good and he handles most medical terms correctly, apart from some amusing errors, such as "duo dend' um" for duodenum and emphasis on the wrong syllable in acrylate. There are others, but we won't be picky.
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- Christie W
- 06-19-23
Great book! Captivating
Such a great and unique perspective from the doctors point of view. Would recommend for sure!
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