One of the world's most distinguished doctors, Gawande is a staff writer on the New Yorker, teaches surgery at Harvard Medical School and practises it in Boston, and has advised President Clinton on health policies. He is also advisor to the WHO on surgery. The bestselling author of Better and Complications, he has lectured in the UK and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford.
It has been years since I read a book so powerful and so thought-provoking ... Gawande is a gorgeous writer and storyteller, and the aims of this book are ambitious -- Malcolm Gladwell Riveting and thought-provoking -- David Aaronovitch The Times A welcome book ... packed with vivid writing, heart-stopping anecdotes and statistical surprises Financial Times