Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science / Atul Gawande.

Author
Gawande, Atul [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York, N.Y. : Picador, [2002]
  • ©2002
Description
x, 269 pages ; 21 cm

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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.
        Other title(s)
        Surgeon's notes on an imperfect science
        ISBN
        • 0312421702 ((paperback))
        • 9780312421700 ((paperback))
        OCLC
        52230249
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