Complications : a notes from the life of a young surgeon / Atul Gawande

By:

Gawande, Atul

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: USA : Penguin Books, 2014.Description: xx, 251 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780143423218

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DDC classification:

617.092 GAW

Summary: tul Gawande performs surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science that is complicated, perplexing and profoundly human. Dramatic true stories explore how mistakes occur, why good surgeons go bad, and what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain but no physical cause; a young woman with nausea that won’t go away; a TV newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job.

Item type: Non-Fiction

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-251).

tul Gawande performs surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science that is complicated, perplexing and profoundly human. Dramatic true stories explore how mistakes occur, why good surgeons go bad, and what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain but no physical cause; a young woman with nausea that won’t go away; a TV newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job.

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