Better vs Complications: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Surgery, Anecdotes, New York Times reviewed, Biography & Memoir
Better
Explores the efforts of physicians to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of insurmountable obstacles, discussing such topics as the ethical considerations of lethal injections,…
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Complications
In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form…
The verdict
- Readers rate Better highest: Better 4.2 · Complications 4.0.
- Better has the widest readership — 38008 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Better | Complications | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (38008) | 4.0 (13882) |
| Hardcover | 4.1 (40) | 4.0 (1) |
| Google Books | 4.5 (2) | 4.0 (7) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (212) | 4.5 (293) |
Reception
| Better | Complications | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 38008 | 13882 |
| Editions | 10 | 20 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 39803 | — |
| Reading it now | 2105 | — |
| Written reviews | 2755 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 961 | 118 |
| Pages | 273 | 288 |