Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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ISBN: 0312421702 / Publisher: Picador, April 2003
Drawing from true accounts of patients and doctors, an examination of the power and limits of modern medicine reveals a world where science is uncertain, information is limited, and deadly mistakes occur.
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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.
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