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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

4.2/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 270

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Picador USA

Release: April 01, 2003

ISBN: 0312421702

ISBN 13: 9780312421700

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

4.2/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 270

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Picador USA

Release: April 01, 2003

ISBN: 0312421702

ISBN 13: 9780312421700

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