Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

By (author): "Susanne Kuhlmann-Krieg, Atul Gawande"
Publish Date: 2002
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
ISBN0312421702
ISBN139780312421700
AsinComplications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Original titleComplications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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.