Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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This collection of gripping accounts of true cases explores the power and thelimits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge.
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Book Information
| Publisher: | Metropolitan Books. |
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| Publish Date: | 04/01/2003 |
| Pages: | 288 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780312421700 |
| ISBN-10: | 0312421702 |
| Language: | English |
What We're Saying
There's a new article today on Salon titled: Healthcare Reform Rock Star, featuring one of our favorite authors, Atul Gawande. Gawande is a staff writer for the New Yorker and author of The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, and Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, books we copiously recommended. And his first book, Complications, garnered rave reviews. READ FULL DESCRIPTION
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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 but as it actually is--uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human. Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
