The book by Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon and renowned popularizer of science, is a brilliant, courageous and incredibly fascinating account of the everyday life of a doctor who deals with life and death every day, forced to make decisions, sometimes in situations where the science is unreliable, information is limited, and the stakes 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 turn bad, about successes and failures in the work of a surgeon, about medical errors and how It’s a blessing when you manage to save a patient’s life.