Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9781846681325
Category
Non Fiction
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Publication Year
2019
Publisher
Pages
288
Subject
English - Health and Medicine
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Abstract
Complications Giving an account of the life of a surgeon, this book looks at what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. It includes chronicles of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; and what it feels like to insert your knife into someone.
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Descriptif : A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Résumé : "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."
Résumé : "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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