288 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 2008 by Profile Books Limited.
288 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 2008 by Profile Books Limited.
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.