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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science Book

Complications : Paperback : St Martin's Press : 9780312421700 : 0312421702 : 01 Apr 2003 : This collection of gripping accounts of true cases explores the power and thelimits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge.Read More

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    Gently dismantling the myth of medical infallibility, Dr. Atul Gawande's Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science is essential reading for anyone involved in medicine--on either end of the stethoscope. Medical professionals make mistakes, learn on the job, and improvise much of their technique and self-confidence. Gawande's tales are humane and passionate reminders that doctors are people, too. His prose is thoughtful and deeply engaging, shifting from sometimes painful stories of suffering patients (including his own child) to intriguing suggestions for improving medicine with the same care he expresses in the surgical theater. Some of his ideas will make health care providers nervous or even angry, but his disarming style, confessional tone, and thoughtful arguments should win over most readers. Complications is a book with heart and an excellent bedside manner, celebrating rather than berating doctors for being merely human. --Rob Lightner

  • Product Description

    In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpelâ??s edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually isâ??uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.

  • 0312421702
  • 9780312421700
  • Atul Gawande
  • 1 April 2003
  • Picador USA
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 288
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