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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A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eye...

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