Gambia: Complications By Atul Gawande

[The Point] In Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science, Atul Gawande, a general surgeon, addresses the current state of the science and practice of surgery. More specifically–as the title implies–he addresses the problems of surgery.

Gambia: Long Walk to Freedom By Nelson Mandela

[The Point] On 10 May 1994, South Africa held celebrations to mark the inauguration of the first president it had ever chosen through nonracial elections. The new president was Nelson Mandela, a 75-year-old black man who decades earlier had initiated a…