Complications A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Name: Complications A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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ISBN: 9780805063196

ISBN-10: 0805063196

ISBN-13: 9780805063196

Edition: 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Atul Gawande

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A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is -- complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human. Atul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 4/4/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
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