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2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction
“No one writes about medicine as a human subject as well as Atul Gawande. His stories about becoming a surgeon are scary, funny, is a uniquely soulful book about the science of mending bodies.” —Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the Moon 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 is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is–uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. At once tough-minded and humane, Complications is a new kind of medical writing, nuanced and lucid, unafraid to confront the conflicts and uncertainties that lie at the heart of modern medicine, yet always alive to the possibilities of wisdom in this extraordinary endeavor.
Author: Atul Gawande
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 4/1/2003
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.6 lbs
Size: 8.2″ H x 5.4″ L x 0.9″ W
ISBN: 9780312421700
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