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5 out of 5 stars
By
Kathy
on
08-11-14
A MUST read . . .
for anyone interested in the current state of health care and the medical field, for professionals, and those like me who aspire to be a doctor in my next life.
Seriously, this is an excellent book that covers very interesting and surprising issues related to improving medical care and outcomes. A few of the things Dr. Gawande touches on are cleanliness, battle injuries, eradicating polio, doctors' salaries, hospital excellence (or lack of), and practice of medicine in impoverished areas of India. Each topic had surprising information and was compellingly interesting to me. The author's intelligence, clear-thinking, and caring came through as the book progressed. He has a great deal to offer medical professionals and also the non-medical, average person, too.
John Bedford Lloyd did a fabulous narration. I never felt that he was reading someone elses book. He read it like it was his own. His voice is simply wonderful, too.
Highly recommended if the topic is of interest to you.
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4 out of 5 stars
By
L. M. Roberts
on
05-23-10
Fascinating and Well Read
Though the narrative is slightly disjointed (the separate sections were not related to each other), I found each section fascinating on its own. The actor reading the book clearly didn't know a few of the words but in general did a good job with pronunciation of medical and science terms.
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5 of 5 people found this review helpful