Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Giving an account of the life of a surgeon, this book looks at what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. It includes chronicles of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; and what it feels like to insert your knife into someone. This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people''s bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made.There are accounts of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; what it feels like to insert your knife into someone.

• | Author: Atul Gawande
• | Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Mar 27, 2008
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781846681325
• | ISBN-10: 1846681324