Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
- ISBN10: 1846681324
- ISBN13: 9781846681325
- Author: Atul Gawande
- Format: Paperback / softback
- Published: 27/03/2008
£10.99
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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This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made.There are accounts of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; what it feels like to insert your knife into someone.