Complications vs Gifted hands: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Surgeons, Biography & Memoir
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…
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Gifted hands
In 1987, Dr. Benjamin Carson gained worldwide recognition for his part in the first successful separation of Siamese twins joined at the back of the head. The extremely complex and delicate operation, five months in the…
The verdict
- Readers rate Gifted hands highest: Gifted hands 4.2 · Complications 4.0.
- Complications has the widest readership — 13882 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Complications | Gifted hands | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.0 (13882) | — |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (1) | 3.1 (11) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (7) | 5.0 (2) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (293) | 4.5 (77) |
Reception
| Complications | Gifted hands | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 13882 | 77 |
| Editions | 20 | 11 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 118 | 2635 |
| Pages | 288 | 232 |