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Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science / Atul Gawande.
Author
Gawande, Atul
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York, N.Y. : Picador, [2002]
©2002
Description
x, 269 pages ; 21 cm
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RD27.35.G39 A3 2003
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Subject(s)
Surgeons
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United States
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Biography
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Surgery
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Anecdotes
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Surgery
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Gawande, Atul
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Autobiographies
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Summary note
"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. This book lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is--uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human"--Back cover.
Notes
"Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"--T.p. verso.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-264) and index.
Contents
Pt. 1. Fallibility: Education of a knife
The computer and the hernia factory
When doctors make mistakes
Nine thousand surgeons
When good doctors go bad
Pt. 2. Mystery: Full moon Friday the thirteenth
The pain perplex
A queasy feeling
Crimson tide
The man who couldn't stop eating
Pt. 3. Uncertainty: Final cut
The dead baby mystery
Whose body is it anyway?
The case of the red leg.
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Surgeon's notes on an imperfect science
ISBN
0312421702 ((paperback))
9780312421700 ((paperback))
OCLC
52230249
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