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Never has a more sincere and honest book documented the training and practice of doctors, and never has a surgeon written so eloquently. The author uses his own educational experiences to explain how physicians learn on patients, at medical meetings, and in mortality/morbidity conferences. Later Dr. Gawande adds to his captivating teaching stories with absorbing commentary on the impaired physician, chronic pain, and the surgical treatments of blushing and morbid obesity. The sea of scientific and medical terms poses no problem for the charming and animated William David Griffith, who is a skilled complement to an audiobook not to be missed by general readers interested in medicine. J.A.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine [Published: AUG/SEP 03]