Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science / Atul Gawande.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gawande, Atul.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gawande, Atul.

Surgeons--United States--Biography.

Surgeons.

Surgery.

United States.

Surgery--Anecdotes.

Medical Errors.

General Surgery.

Medical Subjects:

Medical Errors.

General Surgery.

Genre:

Biographies.

Anecdotes.

Autobiographies.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

x, 269 pages ; 21 cm

regular print

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Picador, 2002.

Summary:

In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. This book lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is--uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.

Contents:

Fallibility. Education of a knife ; The computer and the hernia factory ; When doctors make mistakes ; Nine thousand surgeons ; When good doctors go bad

Mystery. Full moon Friday the thirteenth ; The pain perplex ; A queasy feeling ; Crimson tide ; The man who couldn't stop eating

Uncertainty. Final cut ; The dead baby mystery ; Whose body is it anyway? ; The case of the red leg.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Metropolitan Books, 2002.

"Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-264) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0312421702

9780312421700

OCLC:

52230249