

Working approximately 110 hours a week, Gawande would have to leave his writing of his essays for the nighttime and the weekends. Background Ītul Gawande wrote the Complications during his surgical residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Each of these sections puts forth different challenges doctors must face that make them imperfect and errant, resulting in the inevitable occurrence of errors. The book is divided into three sections: Fallibility, Mystery, and Uncertainty, all going in depth into the problems physicians may face when practicing a variety of procedures in medicine. Gawande wrote this during his general surgery residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital and was published in 2002 by Picador.

Nonfiction collection of essays by American surgeon Atul Gawande Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect ScienceĬomplications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science is a nonfiction book collection of essays written by the American surgeon Atul Gawande.
