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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
by Atul Gawande
January 1, 2002Picador270 pagesNo grades yet
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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. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is―uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.
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