Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

ISBN-13:	9780312421700
Publisher:	Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	04/01/2003
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	38,117
Product dimensions:	8.06(w) x 11.28(h) x 0.80(d)

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.Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.