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Gawande, Atul.
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Gawande, Atul.
Surgeons -- United States -- Biography.
Surgery -- Anecdotes.
Medicine -- Anecdotes.
Medical errors.
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Gawande, Atul.
Gawande, Atul.
Surgeons -- United States -- Biography.
Surgery -- Anecdotes.
Medicine -- Anecdotes.
Medical errors.
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Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science / Atul Gawande.
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Gawande, Atul.
Picador, 2002.
Call #:
617
.092
G284c
Subjects
Gawande, Atul.
Surgeons -- United States -- Biography.
Surgery -- Anecdotes.
Medicine -- Anecdotes.
Medical errors.
ISBN:
9780312421700 (pbk.)
0312421702 (pbk.)
Description:
x, 269 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
"Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate."--T.p. verso.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-264) and index.
Summary:
"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."--From publisher.
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Memoirs.
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