Complications : A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Author(s): Atul Gawande
This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. There are accounts of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; what it feels like to insert your knife into someone.
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One of the world's most distinguished doctors, he is a staff writer on the New Yorker, advised President Clinton on health policies, teaches surgery at Harvard Medical School and practises it in Boston. He has lectured in the UK and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford.
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- : Profile Books Limited
- : Profile Books Ltd
- : 0.243
- : 31 August 2007
- : 198mm X 129mm X 18mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Atul Gawande
- : Paperback
- : 288