Complications

I recently reread the book Complications by Atul Gawande. He is a general surgeon and assistant professor at Harvard who writes for The New Yorker. This book is a series of narrative essays on various issues in medicine: training in procedures, conferences, flesh-eating bacteria. I had heard and known about many of these topics, but his writing is eloquent, poignant, and engaging. I really think his rhetoric and narrative bring this book to a new level and makes the reader think. He is able to combine scientific evidence with patient cases in an easily-readable fashion for the layperson. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in medicine.