Complications by Atul Gawande

In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel #39;s edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is - uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human. This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people #39;s bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. Category:Medicine ISBN:9781846681325 Publisher:Profile Books Imprint:Profile Trade Pub Date:01 Mar 2008 Page Extent:288 Format: Paperback