Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Title: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Author: Gawande, Atul
ISBN: 9780312421700
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2003
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Very Good


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Publisher Description:

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.