![]() ![]() ![]() Heart disease and cancer are more likely to cause death, but nothing else. (See commentary about the research on NPR.) Let that sink in for a second. Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. In this yearning, we’re willing to overlook what we know to be reality. ![]() Someone else who will tell us the answers to the questions that we don’t even understand yet. We want to believe that we have it all figured out – or at least, if we don’t have it all figured out, someone else does. We’re wired by our nature to crave understanding of our world. They’re the reason I picked up Complications. I’ve reviewed two of Gawande’s more recent books The Checklist Manifesto and Being Mortal – both are good and different from each other. Atul Gawande speaks about medical complications in Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science while simultaneously exposing the inner struggle that surgeons – and, indeed, anyone who provides care to another person – must struggle with. ![]() We believe that we’ve got life all figured out, but then come the pesky complications to our orderly, perfect world. Complications impact every aspect of our life. ![]()
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