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The book by Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon and renowned popularizer of science, is a brilliant, bold and incredibly entertaining story about the everyday life of a doctor who deals daily with life and death, forced to make decisions sometimes in situations where science is unreliable, information is limited, and the stake is human life. . Telling touching, piercing stories from his practice, the author speaks frankly about the serious problems and limitations of modern medicine, about the mysteries of the human body, about how good doctors become bad, about successes and failures in the work of a surgeon, about medical errors and about what it is a blessing to save a patient's life.