Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science
Atul Gawande
270 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0312421702
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Language: English
Publish: 1049184000000
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This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a 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.