Complications: Notes from the Life of a Young Surgeon
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Atul Gawande
Atul 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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Publisher: Penguin Portfolio
Published Year: 2014
ISBN: 978-0143423218
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