My girlfriend’s mother gave me a very inter­esting book to read on my flight back from vaca­tion. It is “Com­pli­ca­tions” by Atul Gawande. For me, the book is a fas­ci­nating, real life look at the kind of things that go on in episodes of Grey’s Anatomy. Per­son­ally, I think that the show’s cre­ators have read it. They may have been inspired by or informed by it. At least one of the cases men­tioned in the book was enacted in an episode during the second season.

This is one of those books that really ought to be read by everyone. Occa­sion­ally I come across a book like this. It has impor­tant infor­ma­tion in it. The author talks about issues and ideas that most people don’t really think about. They prob­ably don’t need to think about them all the time but there occa­sions when it could be very impor­tant. We all get sick and we all have to deal with the health­care industry. At some point we will all put our­selves and our well-being into the hands of another person. This book deals with the cir­cum­stances and pos­sible ram­i­fi­ca­tions of that act.

Found online: Menu­Pages, on of my most-often con­sulted resources for restau­rant infor­ma­tion, has recently received a new design. This is a huge improve­ment over the pre­vious web­site. It’s always nice to see a web­site redesign result in improve­ment. It doens’t always.