Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Product ID: 1524930
🏥Insights from a practicing surgeon’s frontline experience
📚269 pages of immersive medical narratives
🩺Explores real surgical cases & medical uncertainties
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Description
🩺 Where science meets soul — the surgeon’s story you can’t afford to miss!
- AWARD WINNING INSIGHT - 2002 National Book Award Finalist blending science, humanity, and storytelling for a must-read medical journey.
- FALLIBILITY MEETS WISDOM - Understand how intuition, mistakes, and experience shape modern surgical practice.
- ETHICS EDUCATION EXPOSED - Get an insider’s look at the challenges of training new doctors and the ethical dilemmas they face.
- SURGICAL STORIES THAT STICK - Dive into gripping, true accounts from the scalpel’s edge that reveal the human side of medicine.
- UNMASKING MEDICAL MYSTERIES - Explore perplexing symptoms like pain and nausea through a surgeon’s nuanced perspective.
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande is a 269-page first edition paperback that offers a compelling, humanized exploration of modern surgery. Published in 2003 and a 2002 National Book Award Finalist, it blends gripping true cases with reflections on medical uncertainty, ethics, and the limits of technology. Praised for its lucid storytelling and insightful perspective, this book is a must-read for anyone intrigued by the complexities behind the science of healing.
Specifications
| Best Sellers Rank | #26,265 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #4 in General Surgery #7 in Medical Education & Training (Books) #273 in Diseases & Physical Ailments Health |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (6,016) |
| Dimensions | 5.5 x 0.65 x 8.2 inches |
| Edition | First Edition |
| ISBN-10 | 0312421702 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0312421700 |
| Item Weight | 2.31 pounds |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 269 pages |
| Publication date | April 1, 2003 |
| Publisher | Metropolitan Books |
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