Complications : a surgeon's notes on an imperfect science

Description:

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: Surgery,  Surgeons, biography,  Chirurg,  Reisen und Expeditionen,  Expedition,  Surgeons,  Biography,  Anecdotes,  Autobiography,  Medical Errors,  General Surgery,  Atul Gawande,  Gawande, Atul,  New York Times reviewed

People: Atul Gawande

Places: United States