Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science
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Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science
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- Label
- Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science
- Title remainder
- a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science
- Statement of responsibility
- Atul Gawande
- Title variation
- Complications
- Title variation remainder
- a surgeons notes on an imperfect science
- Subject
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- trueEssays
- trueGawande, Atul
- Gawande, Atul
- General Surgery
- trueHospital patients -- Death
- Medical Errors
- trueMedical errors
- trueMedical ethics
- trueMedicine
- Chirurg
- trueCoping
- trueDecision-making
- trueMedicine -- United States
- Personal Narratives
- trueScience Writing -- Medicine | Doctors and Nurses
- trueSurgeons -- United States
- Surgeons -- United States -- Biography
- trueSurgery
- trueSurgery -- Anecdotes
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 good surgeons go bad. He also shows us what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain for which there is no physical cause a young woman with nausea that won't go away a television newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job. Gawande offers a richly detailed portrait of the people and the science, even as he tackles the paradoxes and imperfections inherent in caring for human lives. At once tough-minded and humane, Complications is a new kind of medical writing, nuanced and lucid, unafraid to confront the conflicts and uncertainties that lie at the heart of modern medicine, yet always alive to the possibilities of wisdom in this extraordinary endeavor
- Award
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- ALA Notable Book, 2003.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2002
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
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- 617/.092
- B
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RD27.35.G39
- LC item number
- A3 2002
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
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- 2002 G-120
- WZ 100
- NLM item number
- G286 2002
- Target audience
- adult
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