Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Complications

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande was selected for the 2007 literature experience by a group of faculty, staff and administrators at USU who review books suggested by the campus and community at large, as well as books used by summer reading programs at universities across the country.

The committee felt the book was a strong choice because of its wide appeal to readers and its potential for being integrated into the academic curriculum in a number of ways. It is an example of good writing in the essay style. The book is a compilation of 14 essays written for the New Yorker magazine, where Gawande is a staff writer on medicine and science. The book will encourage discussion of how we learn, how we know what we know and don't know, what we expect from science in our world today, and our role in the medical world.

"In Complications, Dr. Gawande offers a raw 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 shows what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable. At once tough-minded and humane, Complications is 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 humanity's heroic attempts at healing." Speakers Bureau http://www.vipcs.org/conf2005/speakers2005.htm

Convocations Speaker

This year Connections is pleased to present the 2007 Convocations speaker Dr. Atul Gawande, author of Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science and Professor in the Harvard Medical School. He will be speaking Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. in the Kent Concert Hall. More..

Winners of 2007 Breakfast with the Speaker Essay Contest

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From Left to Right: Dax Greener, Chris Schultz, Anna Spencer, Dr. Atul
Gawande, Ashley Calder, Kasi Porter

 
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