Another boring day with a monotonous routine was coming to an end when I got this link in the mail- Two Hundred Years of Surgery by Dr Atul Gawande. We have all heard the story of the evolution of science/ medicine many times- but when a person with literary talent pens it down it is taken to another level. He gets his facts together- researches and writes like a historian.
And then when I saw this during my daily dose of Scrubs- I had to put it up. And Dr Atul Gawande has already done the writing and discussing about it part! The clip summarises what Dr Gawande is explaining...
Surgery certainly has progressed from being ruthless and 'taking a chance game' to being life-saving (most of the times) and more organised. From the pre-anaesthesia, pre-antisepsis times to the present minimally invasive times, it has been a long route (checkout the timeline in Dr Gawande's blog). Not just surgery, every field is advancing at such a rapid rate that sometimes I think keeping pace with all 'this-and-that' is out of my reach.
2 comments:
Nice one. I am mildly curious about the guy who decided to electrocute a cardiac arrest patient and hence invent the defibrillator.
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