Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science / Atul Gawande.

Author/creator Gawande, Atul
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Picador/Metropolitan Book, Henry Holt & Co., ©2002.
Descriptionx, 269 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects
General Surgery--Personal Narratives.
Medical Errors--Personal Narratives.

Contents Pt. 1. Fallibility: Education of a knife -- The computer and the hernia factory -- When doctors make mistakes -- Nine thousand surgeons -- When good doctors go bad -- Pt. 2. Mystery: Full moon Friday the thirteenth -- The pain perplex -- A queasy feeling -- Crimson tide -- The man who couldn't stop eating -- Pt. 3. Uncertainty: Final cut -- The dead baby mystery -- Whose body is it anyway? -- The case of the red leg.
General note"Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 253-264) and index.
Acquisitions source Laupus- Robert W. Cihak History of Medicine Collection
LCCN 2001055884
ISBN0805063196 :

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Laupus Popular Reading Collection WZ 100 G286C 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold
Laupus Popular Reading Collection WZ 100 G286C 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold