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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science Gawande, Atul
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- Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science Gawande,
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- 9780805063196
- Subject Area
- Biography & Autobiography, Medical
- Publication Name
- Complications : a Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
- Publisher
- Holt & Company, Henry
- Item Length
- 8.6 in
- Subject
- Surgery / General, Medical, Essays
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Features
- Revised
- Item Weight
- 14.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.8 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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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 eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is -- complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human. Atul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. He also shows us what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain for which there is no physical cause; a young woman with nausea that won't go away; a television newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job. Gawande offers a richly detailed portrait of the people and the science, even as he tackles the paradoxes and imperfections inherent in caring for human lives. At once tough-minded and humane, Complications is a new kind of medical writing, nuanced and lucid, unafraid to confront the conflicts and uncertainties that lie at the heart of modern medicine, yet always alive to the possibilities of wisdom in this extraordinary endeavor. Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
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Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
0805063196
ISBN-13
9780805063196
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1596569
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Complications : a Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Publication Year
2002
Subject
Surgery / General, Medical, Essays
Features
Revised
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, Medical
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
14.8 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-055884
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
" Complications is a book about medicine that reads like a thriller." --Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point " Complications is a uniquely soulful book about the science of mending bodies." --Adam Gopnik, author of From Paris to the Moon, "Complicationsis a book about medicine that reads like a thriller." --Malcolm Gladwell, author ofThe Tipping Point "Complicationsis a uniquely soulful book about the science of mending bodies." --Adam Gopnik, author ofFrom Paris to the Moon
Dewey Decimal
617/.092 B
Edition Description
Revised Edition
Lc Classification Number
Rd27.35.G39a3 2002
Copyright Date
2002
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