Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science book by Atul Gawande
By Atul GawandeComplications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science book by Atul Gawande
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.
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- Paperback
- 288 pages
- English
- 0312421702
- 9780312421700
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