Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. There are accounts of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; what it feels like to insert your knife into someone.
Author: Atul Gawande
Format: Paperback, 288 pages, 128mm x 194mm, 240 g
Published: 2008, Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: Autobiography: Science, Technology & Medical
This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. There are accounts of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; what it feels like to insert your knife into someone.