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Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science
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- Creator
- Atul Gawande
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Picador, 2002
- Physical Details
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- x, 269 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780805063196, 0312421702, 0805063196, 9780312421700
- OCLC
- ocm48383609, ocm52230249
- "Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-264) and index.
- Pt. 1. Fallibility: Education of a knife -- The computer and the hernia factory -- When doctors make mistakes -- Nine thousand surgeons -- When good doctors go bad -- Pt. 2. Mystery: Full moon Friday the thirteenth -- The pain perplex -- A queasy feeling -- Crimson tide -- The man who couldn't stop eating -- Pt. 3. Uncertainty: Final cut -- The dead baby mystery -- Whose body is it anyway? -- The case of the red leg
Subjects
- Surgeons -- United States -- Biography.
- Surgery -- Anecdotes.
- Medical Errors -- personal narratives.
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- General Surgery -- personal narratives.
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- Physicians -- United States -- personal narratives.
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