5/27/2023 0 Comments Complications by Atul Gawande![]() The essay unveils the flawed process by which hospitals seek to address and remedy errors and looks to anesthesiology for a model in error reduction. ![]() In “When Doctors Make Mistakes,” Gawande reflects on a time he made a mistake performing an emergency tracheotomy and launches into a data-driven discussion on error in medicine. “The Computer and the Hernia Factory” contains a debate about technology versus humans in the realm of diagnosis and looks at the successful example of a hospital streamlined for hernia operations, the results of a computer that reads EKGs better than people, and the inextricable role of humans in the diagnosis process. In the first essay, “Education of a Knife,” Gawande tracks his ability over time to perform a specific procedure-installing a central line-and discusses the consequences and necessity of training doctors on the job. ![]() ![]() Complications contains 14 essays divided into three sections: Part 1, “Fallibility” Part 2, “Mystery” and Part 3, “Uncertainty.” In Part 1, Gawande embarks on a candid discussion of errors and imperfections in medicine. ![]()
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