Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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Complications is a book about medicine that reads like a thriller - Malcolm Gladwell
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; and what it feels like to insert your knife into someone.
Author: Atul Gawande
Format: Hardback, 288 pages, 143mm x 224mm, 460 g
Published: 2002, Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: Autobiography: Science, Technology & Medical
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Complications is a book about medicine that reads like a thriller - Malcolm Gladwell
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; and what it feels like to insert your knife into someone.
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science