Complications A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Name: Complications A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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ISBN: 9780312421700

ISBN-10: 0312421702

ISBN-13: 9780312421700

Edition: 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Atul Gawande

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Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 4/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.64" wide x 8.20" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

Atul Gawande is a surgical resident in Boston and staff writer on medicine and science for The New Yorker. A former Rhodes scholar, he received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He lives with his wife and three children in Newton, Massachusetts.



Author's Note


Introduction



Fallibility


Education of a Knife


The Computer and the Hernia Factory


When Doctors Make Mistakes


Nine Thousand Surgeons


When Good Doctors Go Bad



Mystery


Full Moon Friday the Thirteenth


The Pain Perplex


A Queasy Feeling


Crimson Tide


The Man Who Couldn't Stop Eating



Uncertainty


Final Cut


The Dead Baby Mystery


Whose Body Is It, Anyway?


The Case of the Red Leg


Notes on Sources


Acknowledgments