Paperback, 288 pages
English language
Published April 1, 2003 by Picador.
4 stars
(2 reviews)
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.
Subjects
- United States
- Surgery
- Medical
- Medical / Nursing
- Surgery - General
- Essays
- Health & Fitness / Health Care Issues
- Anecdotes
- Biography
- Surgeons