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Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science / Atul Gawande.
Van Pelt Library RD27.35.G39 A3 2002
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Holman Biotech Commons RD27.35.G39 A3 2002
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LIBRA RD27.35.G39 A3 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gawande, Atul.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Surgeons--United States--Biography.
- Surgeons.
- Surgery.
- United States.
- Surgery--Anecdotes.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Anecdotes.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 269 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Metropolitan Books, 2002.
- Summary:
- A book about medicine that reads like a thriller, "Complications" is "a uniquely soulful book about the science of mending bodies" (Adam Gopnik, author of "From Paris to the Moon").
- Contents:
- Part I Fallibility
- Education of a Knife 11
- The Computer and the Hernia Factory 35
- When Doctors Make Mistakes 47
- Nine Thousand Surgeons 75
- When Good Doctors Go Bad 88
- Part II Mystery
- Full Moon Friday the Thirteenth 109
- The Pain Perplex 115
- A Queasy Feeling 130
- Crimson Tide 146
- The Man Who Couldn't Stop Eating 162
- Part III Uncertainty
- Final Cut 187
- The Dead Baby Mystery 202
- Whose Body Is It, Anyway? 208
- The Case of the Red Leg 228.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-264) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Frances C. Thielbar Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0805063196
- OCLC:
- 48383609
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