[Daniel_Marcos]

The book Complications, by Atul Gawande is a fantastic account of medicine as an imperfect science that I would recommend to anyone interested in the field.

Things like this make me hopeful about perfecting medicine and surgery to avoid common human mistakes--even if that is still decades away.

[signa11]

in an almost the same vein, i would heartily recommend 'the medical detectives' for bizarre accounts of medical mysteries and once 'debugged' almost 'obviously that's how it would have happened' explanations of those incidents...very cool :)