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tpanik's review against another edition
5.0
A well written rendering of the impasse between doctors and patients, best captured with the two quotes below:
"Understanding diseases and distortions of the body are hard enough without having to account for the dead-ends and trapdoors in patients' personalities." (Pg 124)
And:
"Medicine isn't a promise. Most bad outcomes weren't negligence but a lost struggle between good intentions and disobeying bodies." (Pg 66)
"Understanding diseases and distortions of the body are hard enough without having to account for the dead-ends and trapdoors in patients' personalities." (Pg 124)
And:
"Medicine isn't a promise. Most bad outcomes weren't negligence but a lost struggle between good intentions and disobeying bodies." (Pg 66)
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