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Complications A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Hardcover • 2002 • English

Complications A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

By Atul Gawande

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About the book

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 sci...Show more

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ISBN

9780805063196

Publisher

Macmillan

Published year

2002

Language

English

Original title

Complications A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Format

Hardcover

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