Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Atul Gawande

288 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction essays science informative slow-paced
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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--uncert...

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