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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

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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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Metropolitan Books
Language
English
Pages
269

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Subjects

Surgery, Surgeons, biography, Chirurg, Reisen und Expeditionen, Expedition, Surgeons, Biography, Anecdotes, Autobiography, Medical Errors, General Surgery, Atul Gawande, Gawande, Atul, New York Times reviewed

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Cover of: Die Schere im Bauch. Aufzeichnungen eines Chirurgen.
Die Schere im Bauch. Aufzeichnungen eines Chirurgen.
May 1, 2003, Goldmann
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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."

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Library of Congress
RD27.35.G39 A3 2002

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

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OL7932566M
Internet Archive
complicationssur0000gawa
ISBN 10
0805063196
ISBN 13
9780805063196
LCCN
2001055884
Library Thing
35276
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772619

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