Atul Gawande

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot....

**A new unabridged recording** A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This audio is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is -- complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human. Atul...

A comienzos del siglo XXI hemos acumulado unos conocimientos tremendos y los hemos puesto en manos de las personas mejor formadas, más cualificadas y trabajadoras de nuestra sociedad. No obstante, ese saber es a menudo inmanejable. Los fracasos evitables son frecuentes y persistentes, incluso desmoralizantes y frustrantes, en muchos campos que van desde la medicina a las finanzas, desde el mundo empresarial a la política. El motivo es cada vez más...