An edition of Complications (2002)

Complications

A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

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An edition of Complications (2002)

Complications

A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

1st edition
  • 4.3 (12 ratings) ·
  • 80 Want to read
  • 6 Currently reading
  • 11 Have read

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.

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Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Language
English
Pages
269

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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
April 4, 2002, Metropolitan Books
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First Sentence

"two sponge-sticks in the yellow-brown Betadine antiseptic solution, and opened up the suture packaging. I was good to go."

Classifications

Library of Congress
RD27.35.G39 A3 2002

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
269
Dimensions
8.6 x 5.8 x 1 inches
Weight
15.4 ounces

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL7932566M
ISBN 10
0805063196
ISBN 13
9780805063196
LCCN
2001055884
Library Thing
35276
Goodreads
772619

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Work ID
OL25651868W

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