Sept Non-Fiction Book: Complications - A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Hi everyone!

For our next book, let's learn more about the professionals that try to keep us healthy.

"Gently dismantling the myth of medical infallibility, Dr. Atul Gawande's Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science is essential reading for anyone involved in medicine--on either end of the stethoscope. Medical professionals make mistakes, learn on the job, and improvise much of their technique and self-confidence. Gawande's tales are humane and passionate reminders that doctors are people, too. His prose is thoughtful and deeply engaging, shifting from sometimes painful stories of suffering patients (including his own child) to intriguing suggestions for improving medicine with the same care he expresses in the surgical theater." - Amazon.com

For September, our book will be:

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
by Atul Gawande

Complications

We'll be meeting at the Lincoln-Belmont branch of the Chicago Public Library in West Lakeview. The library is a few blocks walk from the Southport brown line stop (the Paulina stop is closed) and accessible from the Belmont, Ashland, and Lincoln buses. The library has a parking lot and street parking in the neighborhood is widely available.

* Note that the library is just down the street from the Caribou Cafe where we've had meetings in the past.

Chicago Public Library: Lincoln-Belmont Branch

Chicago Public Library: Lincoln-Belmont Branch (MAP)

Feel free to email me with any questions or concerns. Hope to see lots of you there!

-MikeE