“atul gawande”

Riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, and how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession The struggle to perform well is universal, and nowhere is the drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision. In his new book,... More

A rock-and-roll loving surgeon explores the full range of scientific inquiry--from biochemistry, physics, and astronomy, to genetics, evolutionary theory, and cognition. This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the year's most thought-provoking and exciting scientific developments.Togeth... More

This collection of gripping accounts of true cases explores the power and thelimits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge.In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel'... More

You And Your Heart gives a comprehensive and impressive account of all that concerns heart disease as relevant to the non-medical man. The book begins by describing the structure and functioning of the human heart so as to understand the aberrations in the right perspective. This is followed by a di... More

Foreword Preface To Second Edition 1. What Is  Blood Pressure? * The Heart * The Blood Vessels * The Blood Pressure 2. What Is High Blood  Pressure? 3. What Is Low Blood Pressure? * Causes Of Hypotension * Severe Hypotension Or Shock * Nutritional Hypotension * Pos... More

In gripping accounts of true cases, Atul Gawande performs exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is—complicated, perplexing and profoundly human. He offers an unflinching view from the scalpel’s edge, where science is ambiguous,... More