An edition of Complications
(2002)
Complications
A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
1st edition
by Atul Gawande
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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.
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"two sponge-sticks in the yellow-brown Betadine antiseptic solution, and opened up the suture packaging. I was good to go."
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