Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
- Author: Gawande, Atul.
- Publisher: Picador
- Pages: 269
- Publication Date: 2003-04-01
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Paperback
- MSRP: 17.37
- ISBN13: 9780312421700
- ISBN: 0312421702
- Other ISBN: 9781429972109
- Other ISBN Binding: print
- Language: en
- Store Location: Biography
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<p>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 isۥuncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.</p><p><i>Complications </i>is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.</p>
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