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  Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (Paperback) By (author) Atul Gawande

  

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  Short Description for ComplicationsGiving an account of the life of a surgeon, this book looks at what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. It includes chronicles 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.
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  • Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
  • Published: 17 November 2007
  • Format: Paperback 288 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: General | Autobiography: General | Surgery
  • ISBN 13: 9781846681325 ISBN 10: 1846681324
  • Sales rank: 5,564

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Full description for Complications

• 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.