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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (Paperback)
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Short Description for ComplicationsThis collection of gripping accounts of true cases explores the power and thelimits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge.
Full description- Publisher: St Martin's Press
- Published: 01 April 2003
- Format: Paperback 269 pages
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- Categories: Medicine | Surgery | Popular Medicine & Health
- ISBN 13: 9780312421700 ISBN 10: 0312421702
- Sales rank: 23,410
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Full description for Complications
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 is--uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human. "Complications "is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

